Honest Voting

This small but active group is a project of the International Humanities Center, and organizes on issues surrounding voting and elections in the 21st century. NYVV strongly favors paper ballot based ballot marker and scanner systems over direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems.

Concerned New Yorkers can find a list of verified voting resources for New York state here. But everybody will find something of interest in the blog of Bo Lipari, the group’s executive director. Lipari’s post on Thursday the 24th describes how it has become patently obvious that the state’s new voting systems will not be able to complete state certification testing in time for the scheduled 2009 rollout.

The state sets the highest bar in the nation for approval of voting machines, one that vendors have never been required to meet before. Their performance in New York demonstrates that they are a long, long way from understanding that the public will not stand for poorly designed, badly tested and outrageously overpriced equipment, and a business philosophy of let the customer be damned.

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