No DRE voting machines in New York - only paper ballots
Yea! - Per Bo Llipari LibertyVote who offered the only DRE in New York State the ones purchased by Hamilton County has withdrawn its bid.
Apparently LibertyVote and their partner Nedap decided it was time to stop throwing good money after bad and pulled the plug. LibertyVote/Nedap was the only remaining vendor offering a DRE in New York. The move represents the end of an era in New York State, and could be a harbinger for what lies ahead in the rest of the nation.
Hats off to all who followed and participated in the process.
So for the first time since HAVA passed in 2002, New York State has no DREs of any type being purchased by any county, or undergoing NYS certification testing for 2009 purchases. For the vendors who for 6 years told us “New York is a DRE stateâ€, we tell you now as we told you then, “Wrong. New York is a paper ballot state.â€
There are still dangers out there but this is good news - very good news
HOORAY!
[...] Yesterday, we told the good news about New York State and the paper trail for voting here. There’s bad news at the federal level however: Voting rights activists who hoped the federal government would help local governments pay for paper trails and audits for electronic voting machines have gone from elation to frustration as they watched Republicans who supported such a proposal in committee vote against bringing it to the House floor. [...]