Council left to wonder why Joe is a no show (Lieberman and voting machines

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Joe is lately incommunicado. Hello, Joe, are you still our senator from CT?

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From Republican American newspaper, Mon., Apr. 24, 2006. p. B-1.

Member towns of the Litchfield Hills Council of Elected Officials, like many others, are struggling with what to do about their voting machines now that the federal government has established criteria and mandated that towns and states comply with a new law intended to make sure everyone who votes has his or her vote counted. Compliance is required by the November 2006 election.

LHCEO and its sister organization, Northwest Connecticut Council of Governments, recently contacted their congressional delegation---Sens. Chris Dodd, D-Conn, and Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Rep Nancy Johnson, R-5th Dist.---for advice. Discussions were held with both Dodd and Johnson, who visited Torrington recently to meet with members of the two councils. Johnson has already followed up with responses to questions posed by town leaders. Dodd has yet to do so.

But no one has heard from Joe Lieberman.

"Is Joe Lieberman still a senator from Connecticut? Did we ever hear from him?" said Goshen First Selectman Robert Valentine at Fridays' LHCEO meeting in Winsted. snip