Tell Your Town to Help Save Lever Voting Machines!

[Bill Bored]

County Sues to Retain Lever Voting Machines

http://www.nytowns.org/web/2010/04/county_sues_to_retain_lever_voti.aspx

Nassau County has filed a lawsuit against the New York State Board of Elections in an attempt to block the use of optical scan voting machines. The suit alleges that the use of optical scan machines violates the State Constitution because they are less accurate than lever machines, and more susceptible to voter fraud schemes and tampering. The suit further alleges that the state's Election Reform and Modernization Act (ERMA) would make private, third party software engineers responsible for counting and recording the votes, resulting in an unconstitutional delegation of the supervision of elections to private parties.

In 2009, a resolution in support of the retention lever voting machines was approved at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Towns. A copy of that resolution, along with http://www.nytowns.org/core/contentmanager/uploads/PDFs/NassauElectionsComplaint.pdf">a copy of the Compliant in the Nassau County action, can be found here.

Local officials interested in learning more about this issue may contact the http://www.nytowns.org/web/2008/06/staff_directory.aspx">Association of Towns.

[Wilms]

1. Here's the thread, from @year ago, about the Association's resolution to keep levers.

Association of Towns of the State of New York Resolution for Retention of Lever Voting Machines

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=512341&mesg_id=512341

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