New York Election Official: New voting machines provide “a giant possibility of fraud.”

[Bill Bored]

The Issues With the New Voting Machines

Written by Wendy Karpel Kreitzman Friday, 05 November 2010

County Commissioner Speaks Out at GNVOA Meeting

New York State’s new digital voting machines are up and running, but there are many issues involving the machines and many problems as well, according to William Biamonte, Democratic commissioner for the Nassau County Board of Elections. Mr. Biamonte....explained that the county believes that the new machines provide “a giant possibility of fraud.” He said that Nassau County is currently in court fighting over the forced use of these new machines. And he noted that the fight against these electronic voting machines is bi-partisan, with support from the Nassau County Legislature.

“Nassau County says that these new machines are a disaster,” according to Mr. Biamonte.....Someone can easily and quickly hack in to these systems “with only some computer knowledge.”

Mr. Biamonte also noted that several studies show that these new machines are “unconstitutional.” Case law, he said, proves that the machines “violate state law in a number of ways.”

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Mr. Biamonte went on to tell the group of elected officials that “the new machines undermine the integrity of elections.”

As well, he firmly stated that these new machines are a “financial burden for Nassau County taxpayers.” The machines are expensive and the cost of paper and machine parts is quite high, and all must be purchased from the private manufacturer.

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“It’s a long-shot, but we would be negligent if we did not do this (the lawsuits),” Mr. Biamonte stated.

Read the whole article at:
http://www.antonnews.com/greatneckrecord/news/11400-the-issues-with-the-new-voting-machines.html

[EFerrari]

1. K&R

[aquart]

2. YES! YES! YES!

[defendandprotect]

3. Amazing that these machines began coming in during the late 1960's ....!!!

And we only woke up to computer voter HACKING in 2000!!!???

Actually, not true -- two journalists in Florida began investigating suspicious

voting results in the late 1960's and early 1970's. See link below.

Two other things to think about --

The LARGE computers used by MSM began coming in during the mid-1960s -- until then

MSM could only report actual vote totals. These LARGE computers gave them new

powers to PREDICT and CALL elections -- PREDICT and CALL Electoral College votes --

PREDICT and CALL winners and losers - even presidents!

We simply saw a reversal of those new powers in 2000!!

Also, coincidentally, these computers began to come in about the same time that

America was passing The Voting Rights Act!

[Rhiannon12866]

4. K&R! I haven't been comfortable with these new machines, either...

I mentioned this to the election inspector (Democratic one, same guy for both the primary and last week's election) and he didn't seem awfully concerned. Thanks for posting... :scared:

[Blue Owl]

5. I look forward to the M$M investigation

:sarcasm:

[JackRiddler]

6. kick - this should be in GD, too.

[Bill Bored]

9. Thanks Jack! It was x-posted with a link back to here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9525552

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. Who's complaining? We fought hard for these verifiable paper trail machines in NY

all the other machines left NO paper trail for recounts and verifiability. There may be some folks...ahem rethuglicans mostly who don't want them .

just saying we need to investigate who is truly behind this complaint.

[Bill Bored]

8. Ever hear of Bush v. Gore?

If you want a hand count of more than 3% in NY, you have to go to court. Just like Bush and Gore! Partisan judges get to decide if your votes will be "verified" now.

I'm tired of hearing about paper that will never be counted, will only be counted if a judge says so (assuming the losing candidate can afford to pay election lawyers to sue for the hand count), or may only be counted if a 3% audit finds some discrepancies.

So far, these paper ballots are a bait and switch. Computers count the votes, kind of like Stalin.

Try to understand that lever voting machines are NOT computers and cannot be exploited to rig elections by switching votes the way computers can. So they don't need a paper trail the way computers do.

"Verifiable" voting means nothing if no one verifies enough of the vote. That's a lot harder to do than you might think and almost no election officials want to be bothered with it, esp. in NY where they are used to lever voting machines.

The officials who say the ballot scanners (and of course DREs) can be hacked, and therefore should not be used, are the honest ones. I have no use for the rest of 'em.

See this thread since you're in upstate NY:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x516765

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. I agree lever ballots were and are the best...but the law said we had to get them and we faught to..

get the best of the lot.

[Bill Bored]

11. Glad you agree! What law do you think says we have to get rid of lever voting machines? nt

[Wilms]

13. ERMA not HAVA says dump the levers. And the Nassau lawsuit is challenging ERMA as unconstitutional.

But lots of people, and possibly elsewhere think it was HAVA. Bad information foisted on voters.

But you knew that.

[Bill Bored]

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