New York comes in last again
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  States around the country had spent 67 percent by the end of 2007 of the nearly $3 billion the federal government handed out to update voting systems, New York had only used up 7.43 of the $220 million it received. That’s a lower percentage than any other state. New Hampshire is No. 49, at 9.74 percent, although that state did not submit the required annual report to the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission. Â
  New York is the last state in the nation to comply with the Help America Vote Act, which Congress passed to avoid a repeat of the vote-counting debacle in the 2000 presidential elections. The state is under federal court order to replace its 20,000 mechanical lever voting machines by fall 2009.
  These are the financial details for New York:
  —$219.5 million received in HAVA funds;
  —$16.3 million spent;
  —$27.3 million earned in interest;
  —$230.5 million left in account.
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For the loser now shall be later to win, for the times they are a changin’”. Bob Dylan
What’s been a changin’ since the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002?
What have we as a nation learned?
—Well more than 3 dozen studies from independent computer scientists that have come out largely in the last three years have repeatedly corroborated that software-driven optical scanners and DREs are grossly vulnerable to undetectable and outcome-determinative election fraud. These studies conclusively establish that there is no way to produce secure, reliable election results relying on these “HAVA-compliant” computers.
The scientific studies make it clear that these optical scanners and DREs should all come with a big fat: Warning: This Product Is Hazardous To Your Freedom… (http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/2008/07/warning-this-product-is-hazardous-to.html)
—And we’ve learned that the HAVA money the federal government passed before our states’ noses, like an ephemeral flower as that money continued into the hands of the cartel of partisan voting vendors, still wasn’t enough to keep up with the rising costs to the states these fragile, shoddy, flawed computers require, not to mention the usury rates the cartel of vendors can demand once the maintenance contract expires.
—We’ve witnessed our unfortunate 49 neighbor-states suffering massive disenfranchisement as they cast votes on concealed software, having no idea if their votes were counted as cast because of course the voting vendors don’t want us to know how the people’s votes are being counted – even though no self- respecting democracy would tolerate keeping this information secret – and the state governments have all capitulated to the vendors’ desire to hide from us the way they’ve programmed their machines to count our ballots.
In New York, if the legislation requiring us to replace our lever voting system with these theft-inviting optical scanners or DREs is not challenged for its offense to our constitution and rights as a sovereign people, we will lose our transparent electoral system and we will replace our accurate reliable election night “official” count with an admittedly unreliable computerized “official” count. Our Legislature understood that the new official count produced by the unprotectably riggable computers was unreliable. That’s why it provided for a partial hand count of the paper ballots— after the election is over, after the press has declared the winner, after the results from the other precincts are known, and after the ongoing public scrutiny once provided at the poll site has ended. Hmmm, an unreliable first count verified by an unreliable post-election partial count Unconstitutional through and through, but unless we join together as New York VOTERS v. NY State and the State Board of… ( http://re-mediaetc.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-york-voters-v-ny-state-and-state.html) we will become the last state to succumb to the surrender of our constitutional right to vote.
For the moment and for the 2008 election, New York will be the last state in the union to enjoy a transparent, functioning, secure electoral system. We will be the last state to have a basis for knowing our votes were counted as cast. We will be the last state to have a voting system that detects and reveals theft. We will be the last state that has a voting system that deters known opportunities for theft. We will be the last state that should tampering nonetheless break through our safeguarded system, we will have reliable evidence of the theft and be able to hold the crooks accountable. We will be the last state to enjoy a process of voting that is transparent and observable by the public. We will be the last state that still enjoys a protected and meaningful right to vote. We will be the last state to know with any rational basis for certainty who the winner really is.
“For the loser now shall be later to win…”.
Andrea Novick, Esq.