VIVA NY Voting Integrity & Verification Act of NY
(Passed NY Senate 2023)
A6287(Cunningham) /S7116(Cleare)
What is VIVA NY?
- Simple bill that requires hand-marked paper ballots and ballot-marking devices in all polling places
- Bans votes from being encoded in barcodes
- It passed the NY Senate in 2023
Memos of Support from over two dozen groups
- good government groups
- civil rights groups
- election officials
- election experts
- disability rights advocates
Memo of Support Links
Letter Signed by over 70 Experts & Good Government Groups
Support to protect the write to fill our a ballot with a pen and paper has been building for years.
- In 2021 & 2022 the Protect Our Ballots Act passed NY Senate twice, but stalled in the NY Assembly. 2022 & 2021.
- It had similar language to VIVA NY.
NY (A1115C/S309B).
Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization
Association of Black Educators of New York, Inc.
Bethlehem Morning Voice Huddle
Concerned Families of Westechester
Downtown Nasty Women Social Group
Dutchess County Progressive Action Alliance
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund
National Voting Rights Task Force
New York Democratic Lawyers Council
New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN)
NYPAN of the Southern Finger Lakes
OSET – Open Source Election Technology Institute, Inc.
Reverend Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, former president of the North Carolina NAACP (BRIDGE)
Sierra Club (NY State Chapter, called the Atlantic Chapter)
Suffolk Independent Living Organization
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