From Andi Novick: Dear Fellow New Yorkers:
Please help us save our mechanical lever voting machines and prevent software-based secret vote counting in New York! Please send the letter below (in blue) to your County Legislators (NYC residents, send it to your City Councilmembers) Thank you, Andi Novick Re-Media Election Transparency Coalition, <http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/>http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/ GREAT NEWS! Last month Dutchess County became the first county in New York to UNANIMOUSLY pass a resolution to keep lever voting machines! You can read it here: <http://tinyurl.com/dutchessres>http://tinyurl.com/dutchessres NEXT STEP: Now we need to pass more resolutions from more county legislatures! Send the letter below (or your own letter) to your County Legislators (in NYC, City Councilmembers) to urge them to pass a similar resolution to save our lever voting machines! The more legislators we can reach, the better! THE MORE RESOLUTIONS THE MORE THIS BECOMES A REALITY WHY? Our current fiscal crisis will prevent new computerized voting equipment from being handled responsibly. And we shouldn't waste our money on budget-breaking new voting machines when we already have superior, secure, reliable lever voting machines that won't cause the problems and skyrocketing costs other states have had with unreliable, computerized equipment. Democrats, Republicans and members of other parties have praised our lever voting machines: NY State Election Commissioners Kellner, Aquila and Peterson; Nassau County Election Commissioners Biamonte and DeGrace; Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy; the entire Dutchess County Legislature and the over 1,500 New Yorkers who have signed our petition!<http://www.electiondefensealliance.org/save_ny_levers>http://www.ElectionDefenseAlliance.org/save_ny_levers PLEASE ACT NOW! 1. Send the letter below to your county Legislators or NY City Councilmembers. Find your county legislator: go to <http://www.google.com/>www.google.com and enter your county's name followed by the words "county" and "new york" (ie. Dutchess County New York) Find your NY City Councilmember: click here: <http://council.nyc.gov/>http://council.nyc.gov 2. Send a copy of your letter to your county election commissioners as well. Find your county election commissioners here: <http://www.elections.state.ny.us/CountyBoards.html>www.elections.state.ny.us/CountyBoards.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - letter to cut, paste, fill in your own info, and send to your legislator and election commissioners: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear County Legislator (or NYC Councilmember), Last month the Dutchess County Legislature unanimously passed a resolution to retain our lever voting machines (see: <http://tinyurl.com/dutchessres>http://tinyurl.com/dutchessres). As the resolution says, "it is in the best interest of the public" to continue to use our lever voting machines. In this time of economic crisis, it is not responsible to move ahead to computerize our elections. In other jurisdictions, computerization has raised the cost of running elections. Now is the wrong time to take actions that will end up requiring us to raise taxes or take monies away from other essential services. We already have an affordable, secure, reliable voting system that doesn't need to be replaced. The cost of transition to computerized voting machines will exceed funds received from the federal government. Worse, the money is not for a good purpose, because the new systems lack integrity and violate our constitutional rights. New York's Election Reform and Modernization Act of 2005 (ERMA) requires replacement of our lever voting machines. The Voters Campaign to Save our Secure Electoral System is commencing litigation next month to have ERMA declared unconstitutional. ERMA precludes election officials from fulfilling their responsibilities to observe and safeguard the elections by surrendering their duties to the invisible processes of software. More information is at <http://www.re-mediaetc.org/>http://www.re-mediaetc.org. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) enabled citizens with special needs to vote independently and New York has satisfied this requirement with accessible paper ballot marking devices in every poll site. There is no need for New York to spend more money or to replace lever machines. We urge you to consider the overwhelming evidence against computerized voting systems (see: <http://tinyurl.com/SciStudies>http://tinyurl.com/SciStudies). Other states have acted unwisely when they computerized their elections, and we should not follow the same path. 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