NY: Another County Says No to Computerized Optical Scan Vote Counting, Yes to Reliable Levers

[Wilms]

County Pulling Voting Machine Debate in Opposite Directions

By: Melissa deCordova, Sun Staff Writer
Published: June 9th, 2009

NORWICH – Chenango County appeared to be pulling in opposite directions Monday with lawmakers adopting a resolution to stay with the old-fashioned, lever-operated voting machines and the elections office agreeing to participate in a pilot test of the new, optical scanner system.

Board of Supervisors Chairman Richard B. Decker, R-North Norwich, who personally offered the resolution before the board, said he didn’t know the Chenango County Board of Elections had agreed to the pilot.

“This is the first I’ve heard of it,” he said yesterday. “We should have said, ‘No.’ We don’t want to be guinea pigs.”

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Decker said he receives approximately three calls a week from a constituent who asks him to stay with the lever machines. The chairman’s resolution, which was adopted by the full board yesterday, states the cost to taxpayers for the new machines will be “insurmountable and severely strain and possibly break the budgets of all counties in this time of economic crises.”

Elections expenses have increased from $150,000 a year in 2004/2005 to $460,000 last year in order to meet federal Help America Vote Act statutes. HAVA aims to make voting easier for the handicapped.

http://www.evesun.com/news/stories/2009-06-09/7156/County-pulling-voting-machine-debate-in-opposite-directions/

[MarjorieG]

1. Wilms, will be sending out a release about two more, Thursday.

Now we have to start over with our State Senate, which changed to GOP, in usual Dem, Albany, corrupt dysunctional fashion.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

2. were there ANY public hearings ANYWHERE about this Pilot?

it seems to me that some of the worst ideas for elections are done under
the guise of "Pilots".

Its a way to evade public input and evade existing laws.

[Bill Bored]

3. No. nt