PEACEMAKERS FRUGAL VOTER QUESTION ONE:

SHOULD NEW YORK STATE SPEND $200,000,000.00 FOR ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES?

O Yes, even though I can’t see what’s going on inside an electronic voting machine, I trust all the voting machines, the machine manufacturers (even the ones which are foreign owned and/or employ convicted felons or have partisan connections) , and their vendors, and the software engineers, and the computer technicians , and the election officials who will test the voting machines (even if they don’t know anything about computer security ), and the moving guys with the U-Haul truck that will deliver the voting machines to the polling place, Yes I trust that my vote will be recorded accurately and will be counted accurately…….…….. I think.

O No, I don’t think so. I’ll take the advice of the many good government and voting rights organizations which advocate we use the more reliable, more secure, and much more economical, paper ballot voting system. And, if there is an important reason for getting the results faster than hand-counting would allow, I can accept a ballot scanner counting my vote but only if the scanner is programmed and maintained by municipal workers, not by a private corporation , and the hand-counted tally of paper ballots remains the official record of the election.

This ballot may be mailed to; Peacemakers of Schoharie County, POB 214, Cobleskill, NY 12043. Go to www.nyvv.org <http://www.nyvv.org/> for more info.