Areas of interest: Voting Rights, Election Security, Communities of Color New York City – June 30, 2022 — New York’s governor Kathy Hochul is convening the New York Senate and Assembly in an Extraordinary Session to address necessary changes to gun safety laws. There is another extremely urgent issue that the governor and legislature mustContinue reading “Immediate Action Required by NY Governor and Legislature”
Category Archives: NY A1115C-S309B
Lobbyists Killed a Bill to Protect NY Elections with Help from the NAACP
An article by Sam Mellins / June 16, 2022 Published in both NY Focus & the Albany Times Union (front page of paper.) New York elections could soon be more vulnerable to hacks, after lobbyists, the NAACP, and the Assembly elections committee chair teamed up to kill an election security bill. New York’s elections couldContinue reading “Lobbyists Killed a Bill to Protect NY Elections with Help from the NAACP”
NY Protect Our Ballots Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 23, 2022CONTACT: Lulu Friesdat, Founder, SMART LegislationSMARTlegislation@gmail.comFull Release download | Civil Rights Leaders Letter | Experts Letter Top Election Security Experts and Civil Rights Organizations Describe Ticking Time Clock for NY Elections Areas of interest: Voting Rights, 2022 Midterms, Election Security Leaders and Experts letters New York City – May 23, 2022Continue reading “NY Protect Our Ballots Act”
The Bill to Establish Some of The Best Election Security Protocols in The Nation
We have an emergency here in New York. We are fighting off voting machines that will change our entire way of voting, undermine confidence, contribute to long lines and vastly increase costs for already strained local budgets. These voting machines are known as hybrid and universal-use voting machines. They are in the process of being approved by the State Board of Elections.
Learn more about hybrid and universal-use voting machines.
We are on the cusp of passing a groundbreaking bill through the New York legislature that will prevent this disastrous development (A1115C / S309B). It guarantees hand-marked paper ballots and stand-alone ballot-marking devices in all polling places. This is the setup recommended by security experts and preferred by voters. The bill updates New York election security requirements, that have not been updated since 2008.
More than 65 experts, good government, and civil rights groups sent two letters to elected officials saying they support the bill. They are asking the legislature and the governor to quickly pass and sign it.
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