A Bill Before the State Legislature Would Build Election Integrity into System
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Everyone is concerned about election integrity.
We voters need assurance that we can mark a ballot privately and independently, that we can verify our votes as we marked them and know that those votes will be counted accurately. We need to trust the integrity of the system that allows all this.
Integrity must be built into the foundation of the election system. It doesn’t work as an afterthought. Board of Elections procedures and voting machinery must be inclusive and trustworthy to prevent endless claims of fraud or theft after elections when sufficient integrity wasn’t built in.
Good government groups in New York such as Let NY Vote, SmartElections.us and Indivisibles like CCoHOPE Indivisible have helped develop and build pro-democracy legislator support for VIVA NY (S6169B/A5934B), currently before the state legislature.
With VIVA NY, voters can trust that their votes will be counted from the marks they made on a paper ballot, not from barcodes assigned by machines, and that those ballots, as the voter last saw them, will be available for recounts and audits. This paper ballot system works. We have used it for at least a decade. We know it. We need VIVA NY to keep it.
VIVA NY has strong support, but needs even more to be passed this session. Ask your Assembly representative and Gov. Hochul for elections with built-in integrity. Ask them to make VIVA NY law this session. Then, go with confidence to the polls, and bring your friends!
Catherine Ray
Ossining
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