Oppose Electronic Voting Systems

Ensure Verifiable Elections in NY - Oppose DREs, Electronic Voting Systems

I am writting to express my concern for verifiable elections here in New York State. I would like to see a permanent end to electronic voting machines. One type of electronic voting systems being proposed right now by the New York State Board of Elections, called DRE systems, have continually failed in recent elections due to printout errors, paper jams, and the systems running out of ink, in at least nine states, according to New Yorkers for Verified Voting.

The League of Women Voters, New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), and New Yorkers for Verified Voting released a press release on September 19th calling for the State Board of Elections to not allow untested "DREs" to be implemented across the state (http://www.lwvny.org). They also wrote a letter, signed on by a coalition of other groups as well, to all the commissioners of the State Board of Elections. These touch screen voting machines have caused "endless problems in other states", according to Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting. NYPIRG Legislative Council Russ Haven said in the statment, "The State Board of Elections apparently is looking to sneak untested DRE's into every polling site across the state...we should be aware of such Trojan Horses."

I urge you to google "Clinton Eugene Curtis," who is a computer programer who was hired, a few months before the 2000 Presidential election, to bulid a "vote rigging" software program by a running-mate of President Bush's brother, the Governor of Florida. Tom Feeney, who is now a U.S. Congressman and member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, was a Florida Congressman in 2000 when Curtis was hired to make the software. Feeney was a running-mate to Jeb Bush for Florida's Governor, and was also Speaker of the Florida House at the time.

Curits became the lead programmer for Yang Enterprsies, and had daily meetings with the CEO Mrs. Li Woan Yang, who once stated, "This program is needed to control the vote in South Florida [2000 Presidential Election]." Curtis, who developed the software, says in an affidavit, that Feeney was present at his companies meetings about the software, "on at least a dozen occasions". Curtis testifyied in front of a town council meeting, under oath, that he was hired to develop a system that could tip the vote 51-49 everytime. This video is available on Youtube, and a clip is shown in the late Aaron Russo's film "America: Freedom to Fascism" that exposes the Federal Reserve fraud as well as the destruction of our civil liberties in America. Curtis believes these systems were used in many elections, including the 2004 Presidential elections in Ohio, or in any other place since 2000 where exit polling numbers have not matched up with official vote tallies. His affidavit is available online: http://www.pej.org/documents/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf You can watch his testimony online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3hUPP_bdOo

I also urge you to read "The Usability of Electronic Voting Machines and How Votes Can Be Changed Without Detection" by Sarah P. Everett, Rice University, 2007. Considering, as Lipari of NYVV says, there is "abundant evidence that DREs are a failed experiment," I urge you to demand, immediately, that the State Board of Elections do not allow these broken and corruptable machines, or any electronic voting machines, into our polling places.

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