Mike DeRosa Mike DeRosa for CT Secretary of the State





"I'm running for Secretary of the State of Connecticut to give voice to all the citizens of Connecticut.  Our elections have become auctions between two parties that are mirror images of each other.  I'm going to help change that as Secretary of the State " [more]

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Connecticut Campaign Finance Court Challenge: What You're Not Supposed to Know About the New Campaign Finance Laws

2006.11.02
While we will try to "reform" aspects of the law in the upcoming session of the CT General Assembly, we are keenly aware that the legislators are unlikely to vote to change something that allows them to essentially silence those who compete against them on the ballot. It is critical that a credible judicial challenge be in place in order to encourage the CT legislature to allow third parties equal treatment under the law. 


UConn VOTER center report: Diebold AV-OS is vulnerable to serious attacks

2006.10.31
A powerful new report was released yesterday about the Diebold AccuVote Optical Scan voting terminal (AV-OS). This is a thorough and independent security analysis of the machines that will be used in Connecticut to count votes on November 7...The authors show that "even if the memory card is sealed and pre-election testing is performed, one can carry out a devastating array of attacks against an election using only off-the-shelf equipment and without having ever to access the card physically or opening the AV-OS system box." The attacks presented in the paper include manipulating the count so that no votes for a particular candidate are counted, swapping votes for two candidates, and reporting the results incorrectly based on biases that are triggered under certain conditions.
Related: http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ 

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Press Releases and Candidate Media

VIDEO: Speech from 2006 CT Green Party State Convention

2006.07.06 -- Connecticut Campaign Finance to Face Court Challenge
The recently passed CT campaign finance law is an act of blatant discrimination against third parties and independent candidacies.  The Connecticut Green Party has joined with the ACLU and other plaintiffs in challenging the law in the courts.