by gregoryheller | Mar 2, 2006 | Uncategorized
As one of our voter data experts, and being that New York is my home state, this article in the NYT is particularly… exciting? No. Disturbing? eh… maybe. Shocking? Not at all. As I said, NY is my home state! And having worked for the State Senate there is nothing surprising about the gridlock that has put the state in the position of being sued by the feds. I have posted about this before. Here are some excerpts from the recent article and some thoughts Other states — including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, California and Ohio — have struggled to carry out some provisions of the federal law, the Help America Vote Act. But election-reform advocates and the Justice Department say New York ranks dead last when it comes to complying with it. At least we are doing–err not doing it–with distinction! Maybe the feds should have acknowledged how hard a problem this is and called together some of the best and brightest thinkers on voting and voting technology and come up with some broad guidelines that gave states a little more direction, like: Systems must produce a voter verifiable receipt and paper record! and systems must be open source! isn’t our democracy more important that proprietary systems? The Justice Department noted in a news release on Wednesday that “states had nearly three years to comply with the provisions enforced under today’s lawsuit” and said that New York “was not close to compliance” with the federal law. No other state has been sued for failing to comply with the law, but Justice Department officials say that they are having discussions with...
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