Progressive Democrat Issue 73: NEW YORK ACTION FOR VOTING RIGHTS

4/24 NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL HEARING ON HAVA

The Government Operations Committee hearing is Monday, April 24th, 10:00, at City Hall. They will consider our voting technology resolutions 131 and 228, and whether to vote them out of committee for consideration by the Council. Come support our issue and our speakers!

If our Council Members remain neutral, or don’t actively select Paper Ballot/Optical Scanner (PBOS), electronic voting will win by default.

Resolution 131 urges the adoption of paper ballots and precinct-based optical scanners and accessible ballot-marking machines for voters with disabilities and minority languages. This resolution is against overpriced, inacurate electronic voting machines!


Resolution 228 urges that the NYC Board of Elections hold public hearings before selecting our new voting machines, and urges public testing to show us that the machines work before selecting them! Sounds simple, but the NYC Board of Elections is not planning to do this at this time.