After several years of our asking, Secretary Thomas uses 10-sided die for drawing. This is much more fair, transparent, and random than drawing slips from a barrel. The Secretary gets our applause for this change.
Here are the districts chosen, from the Press Release:
List of polling places to be audited:
- Killingly—District 5 – Board of Education Central Office Cafeteria
- Norwalk – District 1-3 – Kendall School
- Fairfield – District 133-5 – Fairfield Warde High School
- Thompson—District 1 – Thompson Library, Louis P Faucher Comm. Ctr
- East Haven – District 4 – Overbrook School
- Goshen – District 1 – Camp Cochipianee
- Trumbull – District 5 – Frenchtown School
- Greenwich – District 10 – Glenville School
- Waterbury – District 4-1 – Chase School Gym
- Wallingford – District 9 – Park and Recreation Department
- Norwich – Precinct 6 – AHEPA – 110 Community Room
- Norwalk – District 2-1 – S. Norwalk School/Columbus School
- New Fairfield – District 2 – New Fairfield Senior Center
- Southington – District 4 – Kennedy School
- Stamford – District 915 – Dolan Middle School
- Bridgeport – Absentee Ballot Counting – Margaret Morton Government Center
- Bristol – Absentee Ballot Counting – Bristol City Hall, Room G-1
- Wolcott – Absentee Ballot Counting – Wolcott Town Hall
- Wallingford – District 4 – Dag Hammarskjold Middle School
- Torrington – District 2 – Coe Park
- Waterbury – District 3-5 – Carrington School Gym
- Waterbury— Absentee Ballot Counting – Waterbury City Hall, Cass Gilbert Conference Room
- Putnam – District 2 – Town Hall Municipal Complex
- Waterbury – District 1-1 – Kennedy High School Gym
- Wallingford – District 1 – Pond Hill School
- Pomfret – District 1 – Pomfret Community School
- North Canaan – District 1 – Town Hall McCarthy Room
- Stratford – District 1 – Lordship School
- Wallingford – District 8 – Wallingford Senior Center
- Darien – District 1-1 – Municipal Building
- New Britain – District 7 – School Apartments
- Wallingford – Absentee Ballot Counting — Town Hall, Room 315
- Windsor – District 4 – Windsor Town Hall
- Washington – District 1 – Town Hall, Main Hall
- Bridgeport – District 132-2 – Bassick High School
- New Canaan – Absentee Ballot Counting – Town Hall, Second Floor, Meeting Room
- Newtown – District 3-6 — Reed Intermediate School Cafetorium
- West Hartford – District 3 – West Hartford Town Hall Auditorium
- East Haven – Absentee Ballot Counting – East Haven Town Hall
Alternates:
- Suffield – District 1 – Suffield Middle School
- Coventry – Absentee Ballot Counting- Coventry Town Hall Conference Room
- Beacon Falls – District 1 – Laurel Ledge School
- Guilford – District 2 – Abraham Baldwin School
- Trumbull – District 6 – Middlebrook School
- Westport – District 2 – Saugatuck Elementary School
- Danbury – District 5 – War Memorial
- Bethel- District 1 – Bethel Municipal Center
- Griswold – District 1 – Griswold High School
- Coventry – District 2 – Coventry High School
- Bridgeport – District 134-2- Blackham School
- West Hartford – District 4-2 – Charter Oak International Academy – Gym
- Plainville- District 2 – Our Lady of Mercy Parish
- Cornwall – District 1 – Town Hall
- Manchester – AB Counting- Manchester Town Hall
This time there were a number of medium and large cities with recanvasses, exempt from the audit. So a higher percentage were chosen from the remaining towns. Also we believe Fairfield is exempt based on a highly publicized recanvass, so at least Suffield will be added from the alternates: <read>
