Voting Rights: In New York, The Greed of Voting Machine Companies
by Eric Jaffa, Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Optical scan (fill-in-the-oval) ballots are a better system than electronic voting machines.
They're straightforward.
The voters actually check the ballot.
And they're less expensive than electronic voting machines.
But as New York state consider what type of voting machine to replace the lever-machines with, lobbyists are pushing the big profit electronic voting machines with great success.
Crooked state legislators are repeating lobbyist lies that using optical-scan ballots means huge paper costs.
This argument falls apart when one considers that legislation being considered in New York state for electronic voting machines would require that they print paper ballots.
But this about crooked corporations and crooked officials, not sound arguments.
From The Post-Standard ("How Albany picks a new voting machine" by Erik Kriss, May 2, 2005):
At voting-machine demonstrations, Sequoia openly pushes its touch-screen machines over the optical scanners it also produces. Election Systems & Software, which also produces both, does the same.
...Proponents of optical scan machines suspect the manufacturers see more money in selling electronic machines. Lebanon town Supervisor James Goldstein says vendors have influenced Madison County's elections commissioners, who he said are "on a first-name basis" with Sequoia's Central New York representative, Larry Tonelli.
The two commissioners, Democrat Laura Costello and Republican Lynne Jones, echoed Sequoia's arguments that touch-screens would save money in the long run.
In Onondaga County, Edward Szczesniak, Democratic elections commissioner, and his Republican counterpart, Helen "Pinky" Kiggins, said they also favor the touch-screens also known as DREs, for direct recording electronic machines.
"Ongoing costs for optical scanners are out of sight," Kiggins said. She said the county now spends $30,000 to print absentee and other paper ballots but would have to spend $300,000 under an optical scan system.
(James) Goldstein doesn't buy it.
"If you're relying on vendors who want to sell them electronic voting machines that are more expensive, that would explain it, wouldn't it?" he said. "The bias has been toward DREs all along. It has been an uphill battle to get this paper ballot-optical scan option considered."
The corrupt officials who support electronic voting machines are full of baloney.
Supposedly, New York State can't have optical scan ballots because paper is too expensive.
Never mind that electronic voting machines would need to print paper ballots themselves to have any credibility.
Never mind the cost of maintaining and upgrading computers.
Never mind that optical scan ballots are more reliable.
Paper is too expensive!
This is the ugly side of local government.
Voting machine vendors have hired some of Albany's top lobbyists to plead their case to state lawmakers.
Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. has spent more than $300,000 on a lobbying firm run by Jeff Buley, the counsel for the State Republican Committee.
Election Systems & Software Inc. has shelled out more than $200,000, using Buley and another top Albany firm, Davidoff and Malito.
And Diebold Election Systems Inc. has spent $225,000 on Albany's well-known Greenberg Traurig firm.
State lawmakers are still undecided.
If you're in New York state, please visit New Yorkers for Verifiable Voting and follow their advice about contacting your representatives.
The Money for Lobbyists
The amounts quoted above which these corporations are spending on lobbyists in New York State is in the hundreds-of-thousands of dollars.
But not millions of dollars.
Why can't people who value democracy over corporate greed come up with a few hundred thouand dollars to spend on lobbying in New York?
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