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	<title>Comments on: No New Machines</title>
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		<title>By: Teresa Hommel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Teresa Hommel</dc:creator>
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		<description>Please stop misrepresenting that federal law (the Help America Vote Act, called HAVA) requires replacement of lever voting machines. Please read the relevant portions of HAVA and inform yourselves. http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NYCanKeepLevers_HAVA.pdf 

It is true that our state law requires replacement of lever voting machines. This might have seemed like a good idea in 2005 before the economy crashed and before we had a lot of experience with privatized elections and the thousands of failures of electronic voting and vote-counting systems nationwide.

Now that our state faces a multi-billion dollar deficit and we are still cutting jobs and essential services, please ask yourself what services you would like to cut in order to get new voting technology -- fireshouses? teachers? lunches for seniors? libraries? parks? affordable housing? hospitals? New York state faces budget deficits that will force us to make hard choices. New voting technology is not high on my list, especially since we cannot afford to use it securely at this time, and for the foreseeable future.

Teresa Hommel
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please stop misrepresenting that federal law (the Help America Vote Act, called HAVA) requires replacement of lever voting machines. Please read the relevant portions of HAVA and inform yourselves. <a href="http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NYCanKeepLevers_HAVA.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.wheresthepaper.org/NYCanKeepLevers_HAVA.pdf</a> </p>
<p>It is true that our state law requires replacement of lever voting machines. This might have seemed like a good idea in 2005 before the economy crashed and before we had a lot of experience with privatized elections and the thousands of failures of electronic voting and vote-counting systems nationwide.</p>
<p>Now that our state faces a multi-billion dollar deficit and we are still cutting jobs and essential services, please ask yourself what services you would like to cut in order to get new voting technology &#8212; fireshouses? teachers? lunches for seniors? libraries? parks? affordable housing? hospitals? New York state faces budget deficits that will force us to make hard choices. New voting technology is not high on my list, especially since we cannot afford to use it securely at this time, and for the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>Teresa Hommel<br />
<a href="http://www.WheresThePaper.org/ny.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.WheresThePaper.org/ny.html</a></p>
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