Welcome to My Site
Our Mission:
Our non-partisan group Citizens for Voting Integrity, was formed in Westchester County, New York, in response to the voting problems with the Nov 2, 2004 elections, especially in Ohio and Florida. Some of our members went to other states as election protection volunteers and personally witnessed many breakdowns in the voting process.
Background
In both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections, irregularities
occurred in the election process indicating voter intimidation, voter
suppression and serious problems with electronic voting machines and
tabulation.
Our Position:
In a democracy, government power is derived only from the consent of the governed. Voting integrity is the foundation of democracy. We endorse the following specific actions to achieve nationwide voting integrity:
1. Prohibit touch screen electronic voting machines ("DREs"). Studies find them to be vulnerable to manipulation and fraud. Acceptable alternatives are paper ballots counted manually, paper ballots counted on precinct based optical scanners, and lever machines.
2. A voter-verifiable paper record of each individual vote, designed to permit independent manual recounts.
3. Clear and uniform national standards for physical and electronic security of election venues and ballots, including tallying systems and unfettered public access to all computer coding utilized in any way in voting and tallying systems. Public access must permit independent analysis of the validity, reliability and security of computer codes.
4. Mandatory audits of all races with a statistically significant percentage of votes cast.
5. Clear standards to ensure reasonable waiting times so that no voter is prevented from voting because of excessive delay.
6. Clear national standards requiring non-partisan election boards, Election officials should hold no position in, and make no financial or in-kind contributions to, any political party or entity affiliated with or supportive of any candidate.
Goals:
1. to insure that New York State HAVA implementation provides for secure, transparent, accessible and reliable voting machines and procedures based on paper ballots, and that Westchester County adopt a paper ballot system and not purchase touch screen voting machines (DREs).
2. amendment of the Federal HAVA law of 2002 to provide for paper trails on computerized voting machines where they exist in other states.
3. Secure and accurate statewide voter database that does not purge legitimate voters.
Join Us:
CVIVoter is our email newsgroup that sends out updates on election news in New York and around the country. To sign up to join this group,
"... touch-screen machines are highly vulnerable to being hacked or maliciously programmed to change votes. And they cost far more than voting machines should." New York Times editorial, March 9, 2005
