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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 8442
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 9:57 am: | 
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(From BBV admin): This document was obtained by an extraordinary citizen named Bill Edelstein. Received the document and his commentary on it by e-mail -- interesting findings, great work, Bill! By the way, when he says "I FOILed.." he is referring to "Freedom of Information Legislation")
http://www.bbvdocs.org/NY/state/2000-2006-NY-lever-machine-breakdown.pdf
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quote:I FOILed the NY State Board of Elections and asked for statistics on lever
machine breakdown. They sent me the attached file. "2000-2006 lever machine
breakdown.pdf" has voting machine breakdowns from 2000 to 2006.
I asked the NY BOE for explanations of some of the terms in the document and received the reply from Anna Svizzero below. I asked Ms. Svizzero to tell me how many of these breakdowns had caused problems for votes, and how many emergency ballots were used and where. She said she was unable to answer those questions.
It is evident that there have been a significant rate of many types of malfunction, and these are unevenly distributed. For example, in the 2006
general election, most counties (outside NYC) had a very few mechanical breakdowns while Erie County reported 67 mechanical breakdowns out of 984 machines (6.8%) and Westchester 75/1162 = 6.5%. The Bronx (only NYC county reported) had 183/9117 = 2.0%.
In 2005 Erie County had 18 mechanical breakdowns with 1031 machines (1.7%), Suffolk 39/1191 = 3.3%, Westchester had 31/1121 = 2.8%.
For NYC the figures were 464/7747 = 6.0% for 2005 and 301/7694 = 3.9% for the 2004 general election.
In 2006 38 counties report using emergency ballots and 12 say they didn't need them.
Other years had similar figures. These are, in my view, alarming, as they could compromise elections.
This rate of breakdown also begs the question of how many undetected errors occurred with no possible recount or audit.
Bill Edelstein
Baltimore, MD
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