Comments on: Federal Government Insists New York State Replace Mechanical Voting Machines Before November 2008 http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/11/08/federal-government-insists-new-york-state-replace-mechanical-voting-machines-before-november-2008/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:15:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=8692 By: Eric Sundwall http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/11/08/federal-government-insists-new-york-state-replace-mechanical-voting-machines-before-november-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-155134 Eric Sundwall Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:40:01 +0000 http://www.ballot-access.org/2007/11/08/federal-government-insists-new-york-state-replace-mechanical-voting-machines-before-november-2008/#comment-155134 The new machines were in the BOE lobby last year before the election. A source tells me there are numerous difficulties with specs and contractors on the new options. The bumbling bureaucracy might have done NY voters a favor. Should be interesting to see how they might force the BOE to act before NY coronates their favorite carpetbagger. Of course the real problem will always be who gets official recognition on whatever form the ballot takes, mechanical, electronic or otherwise. Perhaps the sole exception for ultimate fairness might be the 'blank ballot'. Make the bureaucrats count for a whole day (maybe two)and send them home for the rest of the year. The new machines were in the BOE lobby last year before the election. A source tells me there are numerous difficulties with specs and contractors on the new options. The bumbling bureaucracy might have done NY voters a favor. Should be interesting to see how they might force the BOE to act before NY coronates their favorite carpetbagger.

Of course the real problem will always be who gets official recognition on whatever form the ballot takes, mechanical, electronic or otherwise. Perhaps the sole exception for ultimate fairness might be the ‘blank ballot’. Make the bureaucrats count for a whole day (maybe two)and send them home for the rest of the year.

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