New
Yorkers Don’t Want
Electronic
Voting
and
NY state can’t afford it!
Call State Sen. John Flanagan, 631-361-2154. Urge him to introduce
& pass a Scan and Be Sure law, companion to A6503, to
require paper ballots & precinct-based optical scanners.*
New Yorkers
don’t trust electronic voting! But our legislature is about to
n allow NY to switch to evoting without
meaningful security procedures,
n hand our elections over to vendors of
evoting equipment,
n conceal 97% of ballot counting
n spend money we don’t have -- for equipment
we don’t want!
NYVV.org’s
cost study showed that the federal money NY can get will NOT cover the purchase
– nor the increased continuing costs -- of evoting.** And when the evote
warrantees run out in 5 years, and the equipment has to be replaced? We’ll
spend more!
Electronic voting $230,473,000
Optical Scan
$114,423,640
SAVINGS from Optical
Scan $116,049,360
THE 5 MOST
IMPORTANT CALLS (or email or write):
Your own
State Senator and Assemblyperson
Look them up: www.wheresthepaper.org/findreps.html
Senate
Majority Leader Bruno, LOB
Room 909, Albany, NY 12247
518-455-3191 Email
to bruno@senate.state.ny.us
Senator John
Flanagan, Chair,
Senate Election Cmte, LOB Room 817, Albany, NY 12247
518-455-2071 or
631-361-2154 Email to
flanagan@senate.state.ny.us
Speaker of the Assembly
Silver, LOB Room
932, Albany, NY 12248
518-455-3791 or
212-312-1420 Email to
speaker@assembly.state.ny.us
Assemblyman
Wright, Chair, Assembly
Election Cmte, LOB Room 749, Albany, NY 12248
518-455-4793
or 212-866-5809 Email to
wrightk@assembly.state.ny.us
*A6503
requires paper ballots marked by hand, or accessible ballot-marking devices for
voters with disabilities or non-English languages, and precinct-count optical
scanners to alert voters to errors on the ballot before it is cast. More
info: www.nyvv.org/paperballotHome.htm
**http://nyvv.org/doc/AcquisitionCostDREvOptScanNYS.pdf
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