Slashdot Mirror
NY Rejects E-Voting, DOJ Trying to Force the Issue
CompaniaHill writes "Hastily passed in the wake of the 2000 election mess, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) supposedly offered funding to help states update their voting systems. In reality, the short deadlines have been used to push the sale of untested and uncertified new e-voting systems. Many states continue to demonstrate that the new e-voting machines are not reliable. The New York State Board of Elections (NYSBOE) took the time to pass their own voting legislation with additional testing and certification standards which far exceed the HAVA standards. As a result, they missed the HAVA deadlines. In March 2006, the Department of Justice (DOJ) sued New York to comply with HAVA. Now, the DOJ is serving a motion to try to take away New York's right to select and acquire their own voting machine systems — in effect, to force e-voting machines on New York anyway. At the moment it's too soon to say how the NYSBOE will respond."
This first post was written on a hacked e-voting machine. That is all.
You know Turkish? Do you eat falafel? You just voted Democrat? You are a terrorist!
Support NYCountryLawyer RIAA vs People
You don't need to worry. Really you can rest assured that your state will certify only the best e-voting machines based on the most expensive lobbying...er... i mean performance tests. Really no need to worry about what happens to your vote.
I got a catholic block.
The voting machine chooses you.
"If still these truths be held to be
Self evident."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
In Faciest America, the voting machine choose FOR you.
I don't have a face, you insensitive clod!
...sometimes, in order to hurt someone very badly, you have to tell that person terrible lies. - PA