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."

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Why am I unsurprised?

[hyades1]

How can anyone possibly expect another moronic prick like Bush to get elected if they can't rig the vote? If there's any community that knows how poisonous to democracy those voting machines are, it's the people who hang out here. I REALLY hope somebody manages to get into a few of them and ensure that 100% of the vote goes to a single candidate in at least a few districts.