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The Latest Electronic Voting News for New York State
A flurry of inflammatory articles on the web seem to be taking advantage of the situation to create public demand that New York State change its plan for HAVA-compliance in order to keep lever machines permanently. Their articles sometimes substitute misinterpretation of the facts and omission of evidence for responsible analysis. In addition, some of the articles unfairly distort the positions of New Yorkers for Verified Voting and its Executive Director, Bo Lipari. Screen reader compatible version Latest Updates on NY Voting Machine Decisions Read the latest on the county machine choices on Bo Lipari's blog. Currently three counties chose Premier's Automark (Albany, Schenectady, and Rockland), one chose ES&S's Automark (New York City), and the remaining counties chose the Sequoia ImageCast. Only upstate Hamilton County chose the LibertyVote DRE, ordering 11. No county ordered the Avante DRE. Urgent Action Alert for New York State! The Decision On Voting Machines For New York State Is Imminent! As a result of the Department of Justice lawsuit regarding New York State's lever machine replacement, New York State's county level election commissioners have until February 8, 2008 to choose whether to use either a paper ballot based ballot marker and scanner system, or a direct recording electronic (DRE) voting system for each county. Please Act Now !!! Civic Groups Blast Department of Justice Proposal to Gut Standards for New Voting Systems A coalition of civic groups harshly criticized a proposal made by the Department of Justice today that calls for the federal courts to consider taking control from the state and to select new voting systems for New York for the September, 2008 primary elections. The groups said DOJ's position endangered numerous safeguards for new voting systems that were won in state law, such as mandating that the computer code from voting systems be held in escrow in case of suspected problems with machines. Read the full press release here. Download the DOJ Opinion here. Take Action - Oppose the NYS Board of Elections
The New York State Board of Elections has proposed a dangerous plan that would allow uncertified DREs to be used in polling places around the state in 2008. The State Board of Elections is opening the door to making New York a DRE state - we can't let that happen. NYVV Annual Meeting - September 29, 2007 Join voting integrity advocates from around New York State on September 29 and 30, 2007 for New Yorkers for Verified Voting's 2nd Annual Meeting in beautiful Ithaca NY. Florida Election Commissioner Ion Sancho will be this year's keynote speaker. NYVV Releases Two New Cost Reports Facts about Ballot Printing Costs The Gift That Will Keep On Costing: Comments on the Onondaga County Cost Comparison Tell Albany Not to Weaken NY's Voting Machine Law! Two years ago in June 2005, the New York State Legislature adopted some of the strictest requirements for new electronic voting systems in the country. This June, in the last week of the session, lobbyists for the voting machine vendors are pushing a back door amendment drafted by Microsoft attorneys that would effectively gut the source code review protections provided in our current law. New Yorkers must not allow this to happen. You must act now. Early in the week of June 18, the last [scheduled] week of the Legislative session, a bill will be introduced to correct "technical problems" with an earlier law changing New York's Presidential primary date. But this bill will contain a poisonous provision that effectively removes the possibility of meaningful review of electronic voting system software. In the last 2 months, Microsoft and the voting machine vendors have conducted a full court press in Albany, trying to make OUR Election Law suit THEIR interests. [click here for more essential information and urgent action needed] Vendors Try End Run Around New York State Election Law In a breaking crisis in New York State, the City School Board of Troy, NY approved the use of uncertified DREs for the May 15, 2007 School Board Elections. In a brazen attempt to have their uncertified DREs used in New York State, Liberty Election Systems and their Dutch partner Nedap made the School District of Troy an offer they couldn’t refuse – use of 10 of their DREs in the upcoming School District Election at no cost to the district. Unfortunately, the Liberty DRE has not completed New York State testing or met any of the State’s regulatory standards, and is not certified for use in the State by the New York State Board of Elections . . . NYVV's Troy School Election Resource Page Take Action! Don't Allow Uncertified DREs to be Used in School Elections! Voting Integrity advocates around the state are extremely concerned that adoption of the machine timing proposal proposal currently before the State Board of Elections will be a disaster for New York. The proposal s highly flawed, does not interpret the AIR data correctly, and will condemn thousands of New York State voters to long lines and voter disenfranchisement. These guidelines must not be adopted in their current form. Other Electronic Voting News National news from Voters Unite |
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