FYI: "The New York State Legislature has given county governments the authority to decide what kind of voting machines to purchase. The companies that make voting machines, are pushing ATM-like machines called DREs, because they are the most profitable. But DREs would be the wrong choice. Recently, Miami-Dade County decided to scrap their DREs because of hundreds of lost votes and high cost. Miami will replace the DREs with optical scanners. Optical scanners are easier to use and use a paper ballot which is easy to recount, less expensive and more reliable.
Fight the Computer Voting Machine Companies: County legislators and election officials need to hear from county residents now. We need to make this a local issue, with local lobbying and letters to local newspapers. County officials are a lot more able to be influenced than state legislators. But now county officials are only hearing lies and sales pitches from voting machine companies.
1)Meet with as many county legislators as you can. Look for legislators who will fight for you at the County Legislature or Board of Supervisors.
2)Meet with county election officials and insist they hold a public hearing on what kind of machine to purchase.
3) Join or organize a local group to press for optical scanners in your county. The League of Women Voters and other groups are working to fight DREs and support optical scanners. We'll try to link you up with others in your county who want to protect our votes. Email your name and county to Bo Lipari (contact@nyvv.org) at New Yorkers for Verified Voting and he will link you up with other activists." --Richard Kirsch, Citizen Action
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