Voting Machines: VVPR waiver in the works?

by: LLiibbyy

Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 11:35:08 PM EDT

You'll need to write Attorney General Anne Milgram, and your state legislators, on this one. Then contact your freeholders and ask them to work at the county level to ensure that all election districts comply with state law to have voter verified paper records that provide voters with an audit trail by the deadline of January 1, 2008. She's about to let Sequoia off the hook for its incompetence and badly flawed machinery. Stop Her Now! Say "no" to waivers and "yes" to paper ballots.

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LLiibbyy :: Voting Machines: VVPR waiver in the works?

See this: http://blog.nj.com/l...
State can't meet deadline for electronic voting machines

The state can't meet a Jan. 1 deadline for adding printers to electronic voting machines across the state and will ask the Legislature for more time, the Attorney General's Office said today.

That means the technology for verifying votes won't be ready for New Jersey's Feb. 5 presidential primary, said a spokesman for Attorney General Anne Milgram.

"She thought it's better to be right than to rush things," spokesman David Wald said. "The key here is that by postponing this, we're ensuring that in the February 2008 primary, there won't be any voter confusion. It will be familiar, reliable and accurate."

Voting rights activists, who have been fighting since 2004 to scrap some 10,000 electronic voting machines statewide, countered that the courts have ruled out any extensions because printer technology is readily available to meet the Legislature's mandate.

"Enough is enough," said Rutgers law professor Penny Venetis, representing the activists. She accused the Attorney General's Office of an "abdication of duties" to voters.

In 2005, the legislature gave the state until January 2008 to add printers. Voters would view printouts to verify their electronic ballots are recorded accurately, and the paper could be used for recounts.

Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg, who has been monitoring the state's printer progress, has set a hearing for Monday. Last week, she called the situation a "crisis" and
ordered the state to submit overdue backup plans by today. http://www.nj.com/st...

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Special note to those of you who live (and pay taxes) in Essex County: You should be asking your freeholders what sort of damages they intend to ask from Sequoia for violation of the special provision in the purchase agreement signed in November 2005 that stipulated the printer attachment be produced and provided *whether or not* the state allowed a waiver.

write / call the freeholders (Clerk) adavis@freeholders.essexcountynj.org / 973.621.4486
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