NYC Board of Elections Demonstrations/Hearing: ES&S AutoMark/DS200 and Sequioia/Dominion ImageCast

[Wilms]

The Board of Elections in the City of New York will be hosting public demonstrations and a public hearing of the two poll site voting systems that are being evaluated for use in the Fall 2010 elections and beyond.

Find an event near you.

BROOKLYN
Wednesday 12/16/09
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Board of Elections Borough Office
345 Adams Street, 4th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201

QUEENS
Thursday 12/17/09
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Board of Elections Borough Office
126-06 Queens Boulevard, 1st Floor
Kew Gardens, NY 11415

STATEN ISLAND
Thursday 12/17/09
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Board of Elections Borough Office
1 Edgewater Plaza, 4th Floor
Staten Island, NY 10305

MANHATTAN
Monday 12/21/09
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Board of Elections Borough Office
200 Varick St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10014

BRONX
Tuesday 12/22/09
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Board of Elections Borough Office
1780 Grand Concourse, 5th Floor
Bronx, NY 10457


PUBLIC HEARING*
Tuesday 12/29/09
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Board of Elections in the City of New York
Commissioners’ Hearing Room, 6th Floor
42 Broadway
New York, NY 10004

*Each speaker is limited to 3 minutes.

For more information, please call: 866-VOTE-NYC (866-868-3962)

Or visit us online at: www.vote.nyc.ny.us

http://www.vote.nyc.ny.us/pdf/documents/boe/NewVotingSystemsDemonstrations.pdf

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. Warren County leaders may join voting machine lawsuit

NY: County leaders may join voting machine lawsuit
Dec 9, 2009. A number of members of the Warren County Board of Supervisors plan to be plaintiffs in a lawsuit that will challenge the legality of the state's decision to force counties to use new electronic voting machines.
...
it does not appear the county itself will be part of the action.
...

"It's just outrageous," Monroe said. "It's a worse system than what we currently have."

http://www.poststar.com/news/local/article_04096a3a-e510-11de-8f96-001cc4c002e0.html

[Bill Bored]

2. Are there homeless folks out on the street because of this?:

"The machines are being housed in the basement of the new county Human Services building now."

[nofurylike]

3. thank you for posting this, wilms. extremely important! nt

[clear eye]

4. "Hearing" means the public can make statements, right? n/t

[Wilms]

6. I believe that's so. But it wouldn't hurt to call the number in the OP. n/t

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

5. NC activists went to our demos incognito, in nice suits or business attire, and

let the public assume they were election officials.

Our guys and gals blended right in.

One of our guys went to the DRE machines and pointed out the major flaws in them
to his "fellow" election officials.

We had folks at all of the demos.

Computer Scientist Justin Moore was at a presentation by Diebold in Durham County,
and Justin kept asking the Diebold guy to demonstrate the GEMS database system.
He kept asking the guy to click on the button (which would show how easily the data
could be manipulated)

We had one place where fist fights almost broke out - Chatham County.

In Asheville, there was a lady there just sobbing and asking why they were allowing
Diebold to promote their wares.

It was quite a circus.

[diva77]

7. "Each speaker is allowed 3 minutes" yet vendors and lobbyists get unlimited

face time with all the players. :argh: