In 2005 the Green Party and me lead the successful campaign to pass a law that required the
use of paper ballots in CT. We established a group called VOTER that established this law. It
took us two sessions to pass the law because of opposition from Sen Chris Todd and SOTS
Susan Bysiewicz (https://www.ctgreenparty.org/articles/85-how-senator-dodd-tried-to-stopthe-voter-verified-paper-trail.html).
At my behest I was able to get Rebecca Mercuri, the
inventor of the Voter Verifiable Paper Trail System, to testify to the legislature about this voting
system. Her Ph.D. thesis was on this subject and her testimony convinced most members of the
legislature to finally vote for this important safeguard to voting security. Recently the audit
after the election has been reduced to 5%. This is not a statistically significant number
according to Ms Mercuri. If I am elected I will support evidence based safeguards that will
guarantee complete trust in our election system.

I will put forward proposals to create a sustainable economy based on real economic
development and not based on Military Keynesianism(i.e. government should increase military
spending in order to increase jobs). A recent study indicates that spending a billion dollars on
weapons of mass or individual destruction creates less than 8000 jobs. Spending a billion dollars
on education, health care, or the environment creates between 16,000 to 25,000 new jobs.
The Green Party and me have put in legislation to our legislature to establish a CT State Bank.
There is real evidence (The North Dakota State Bank Established 1919) that such a bank would
save billions of dollars. If we spend a billion dollars on a capital project the interest tacked on by
Wall Street will double or triple our cost. With a State Bank there will be no interest and the
money saved will be returned to Main Street.

Election day should be a CT State holiday. Early voting is a good idea but needs a Connecticut
Constitutional change. I would support a no-excuse early voting system using a paper based
auditable secret ballot. The real question is why do midterm elections bring out an average of
only 36.6% of voters in the U.S.? I believe that many people believe that they have limited or
no real choice in our winner take all system. We need major changes in our discriminatory and
unfair ballot access laws in Connecticut. Minor parties are also discriminated against by the
CITIZENS’ ELECTION PROGRAM. For example, minor parties have to collect huge numbers of
signatures to qualify for a full grant. If I wanted to qualify for a full grant during this election I
would have to collect approximately 210,000 validated signatures. How many signatures do the
two major parties have to collect? None!