Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said Friday that the state is taking every precaution possible to ensure that election day goes off without any issues.
Specifically, she said any notion that Connecticut’s elections can somehow be manipulated or altered is a scare tactic because of the mechanics involved.
First of all, local elections in Connecticut use very little modern technology when it comes to actual voting an tabulating.
"We don't use the electronic system on election day,” Merrill said. “So anyone who is worried that the lists are going to be altered or hacked, we're still voting on paper lists. Those lists are printed one week in advance."
Even the vote tabulating machines aren’t connected to the internet and they provide reports on all activity of the machine itself, meaning state election officials could analyze the data and very quickly see whether something has been done to the internal mechanism.
Merrill added, “There are many many checks and balances that ensure that in Connecticut we are using every best practice."
Concerns over the sanctity of the election process have been raised in the last week by GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump who said he would not accept the results of the election, “unless he won.”
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Trump later said he would accept any result and added that he would reserve his right to challenge results in court.
Connecticut GOP Chairman JR Romano said he, too, reserves the right to challenge elections that may have seen issues arise, but said he’s confident in a legitimate outcome.
“I love this country. I love our process. This is how the Republic works.”
