Albany Leaves Choice of New Voting Machines to Counties :-(

[Bill Bored]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/nyregion/11vote.html?>

ALBANY, May 10 - State lawmakers said Tuesday that they have agreed not to agree on what kind of new voting machines the state should buy to comply with new federal guidelines to modernize its equipment after the 2000 election. Instead, they said, they would let each county choose what type of machine to buy.

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But members of several civic groups said that allowing the state's 57 counties, plus New York City, to buy different machines could lead to chaos by making it difficult to establish uniform procedures to govern statewide recounts - which proved to be a major stumbling block during the disputed presidential election in Florida in 2000.

Forcing the ultimate decision down to the county level promises to set off another round of expensive lobbying by voting machine companies hawking their wares. And some officials said that if local governments have to study the issues anew, it could make it even less likely that the new system can be up and running by the 2006 elections.

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[AndreaCG]

1. Has Eliot Spitzer weighed in on this?

He is the only NYS politician that I trust.

[Bill Bored]

2. Actually, he has made some noises about speeding up the process.

He probably doesn't know that if we get e-voting, his chances of winning an election will be severely diminished.

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