New Yorkers Don’t Want

Electronic Voting!

New Yorkers want a reliable, auditable, secure, accessible, and cost-effective voting system. We don’t want electronic voting! We don’t trust it!

New York expects to pass a law for voting systems within the next few weeks!

Assembly bill A5 and Senate bill S1809 would

n allow NY to switch to evoting without meaningful security procedures,

n privatize elections if evoting is used,

n conceal 97% of ballot counting

We oppose these bills in their current form!

Please email, call, or send letters NOW to:

Your own State Senator and Assemblyperson

Look them up: www.wheresthepaper.org/findreps.html

Governor Pataki, State Capitol, Albany, New York 12224

518-474-8390 To send email go to www.state.ny.us/governor/

Senate Majority Leader Bruno, LOB Room 909, Albany, NY 12247

518-455-3191 Send email to bruno@senate.state.ny.us

Sen. John Flanagan, Chair, Senate Election Cmte, LOB Room 817, Albany, NY 12247

518-455-2071 or 631-361-2154 Send 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 Send 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 Send email to wrightk@assembly.state.ny.us

We want to keep our old lever machines -- they were made to last 150 years with normal maintenance. New parts are available. Of all voting technologies they are the hardest to tamper with! For voters with disabilities, we can provide accessible ballot-marking machines* in each polling place.

Our second choice is paper ballots marked by hand, precinct-count optical scanners to alert voters to errors on the ballot before it is cast, and accessible ballot-marking machines* for voters with disabilities. For more info, see www.nyvv.org/paperballotHome.htm

Electronic voting systems CAN be audited--but NO ONE IS INTENDING TO AUDIT THEM because Boards of Election don’t have the staff, expertise or resources to do it! Any technology is dangerous when used incorrectly! Use computers according to professional IT standards, or stick to something that everyone understands – paper ballots or lever machines.

*More info, Bill analyses, Sample letters: www.WheresThePaper.org/ny.html

admin@wheresthepaper.org 2/19/05