New Yorkers Don’t Want

Electronic Voting

and NY state can’t afford it!

 

 

Pass NY’s Scan and Be Sure bill, A6503, to require paper ballots and precinct-based optical scanners.*

 

 

We don’t trust electronic voting! But the New York 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

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO: call, email, or send letters NOW to:

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

 

**http://nyvv.org/doc/AcquisitionCostDREvOptScanNYS.pdf

*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

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