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New York State Board of Elections

• BOE Home Page
• State Counties Map
• County Board Addresses
• Voting Machine Regulations [Rev. 4/20/06]

New York State Association of Counties

• NYSAC Policy Brief on HAVA funding [~3.7mb] prepared for county legislators. The last two pages of this report chart voter registration and HAVA funding for lever machine replacement county by county.

NYVV Chapters

• MidHudson Verified Voting
  • MHVV County Contacts

New York State League of Women Voters

• LWV Home page
• Campaigning for Optical Scan

Electronic Voting Information

• NYPIRG: Top seven failures in the State Board of Elections proposed requirements for new voting systems.
   
• The accessible text file for GAO report number GAO-05-956
  entitled 'Elections: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and
  Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed' which was released on October 21, 2005. The report as a PDF file, ~965kb!
  
• Computers and Elections - Text of statement to the Joint Committee on Election Laws of the Massachusetts General Court on 19 July 2005, by Robert J. Fleischer.
   
• Downloadable documents on Paper Ballot/Optical Scan voting systems
   
• Videos demonstrating optical scanners and ballot marking equipment
   

• Our friend Teresa Hommel is the author of the excellent demonstration tool, The Fraudulent Voting Machine. She also has put together the most extensive set of electronic voting links on the web.
   
• Verified Voting offers up-to-date news and what you can do to work for verifiable elections. The many resources include a newsfeed, an excellent FAQ, and an email newsletter to stay informed. While you're there, check out and endorse the Resolution on Electronic Voting . Nearly 1000 technologists and security experts across the United States have endorsed this resolution calling for a voter-verified audit trail on all election equipment.
   
• Black Box Voting.com is the web site of Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering In The 21st Century." Black Box Voting.org is her activist site. Here is a chapter from her book listing of electronic voting machine failures.
   
• Dr. Rebecca Mercuri is an internationally recognized expert on electronic voting. Read her analysis, articles, testimony before Congress, and more. Two very important articles are Florida 2002: Sluggish Systems, Vanishing Votes. NEW--an informational brochure called Facts About Voter Verified Paper Ballots , prepared in response to misinformation that is currently being circulated by those who are opposed to independent election auditing.
   
• Lynn Landes of EcoTalk.org has compiled an 11-page list of electronic voting machine failures.
   
• ElectionOnline.org is the single best resource for current information about each state's HAVA plan, and it's impact on the 2004 election.
   
• The Commonweal Institute has a useful list of links to many articles in the print and electronic media, as well as other information about electronic voting.
   
• Scoop has a long list of links to articles in the print and electronic media.
   
• There are many vendors of DREs. In the US, the three largest are Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia.
   

Additional Resources

• Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 (H.R. 2239) , introduced into the United States House of Representatives in May 2003, is an amendment to HAVA and requires voting computers to provide open-source software and a voter-verified paper audit trail. With 30 cosponsors, it still remains in the Committee on House Administrations. If it were passed, we would have the reasonable solution required by federal law.
   
• Analysis of an Electronic Voting System , by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin and Dan Wallach, was released July 24, 2003. The first three authors are at Johns Hopkins University; Wallach is at Rice). The authors have done a security analysis of Diebold code that was downloaded from an open FTP site earlier this year. While the paper is technical, significant portions of it can be read easily by a non-computer scientist.
   
• How to Build a Fraudulent Voting Machine , by Steve Chessin. This brief, readable paper describes how to design a fraudulent voting machine that evades detection by the Independent Testing Authorities and local logic and accuracy tests.