Tonight Bo Lipari, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Verified Voting, reports on the situation in New York State as new HAVA mandated voting systems begin to be tested and delivered. State election integrity advocates fought to have some of the strictest certification standards for voting machines in the nation. Now that the machines are finally being delivered and testing has begun, initial certification testing has uncovered thousands of defects and New York counties are reporting receiving machines that don’t work.John Gideon of VoterUnitewill provide latest news update. .John Gideon of VoterUnitewill provide latest news update.
Guests:
Bill Biamonte, Nassau County Commissioner of Elections Nassau County formally informed the Court overseeing New York State’s HAVA implementation that 85% of machines delivered to them to date have not been able to pass county acceptance testing. Bill will tell us about the problems they’ve encountered and what Nassau wants to do about it.
Vicky Perry, Duchess County Board of Elections Machine Coordinator Vicky will tell us about her observations as the new systems begin to arrive, the implications of the early problems, and the uncertainty facing the Boards of Elections as they work to deploy Ballot Marking Devices for the first time this year.
Guest Bios: Bill Biamonte Commissioner of Elections, Nassau County
Bill Biamonte is election commissioner for Nassau County, New York State’s largest county outside of New York City and which has over 900,000 registered voters. As new voting systems have begun to arrive in Nassau County, Bill has been at the forefront of election commissioners questioning the quality and reliability of the new electronic systems.
Vicky Perry Duchess County Board of Elections Machine Coordinator Vicky Perry has worked for the last year and half as Duchess County’s Elections Machine Coordinator. Her roles include planning, testing and deployment of lever machines, new Ballot Marking Devices this year, and scanners in 2008.
Co-Founder of the Coalition for Voting Integrity. Host of "Voice of the Voters! Radio & Internet. Nationally recognized expert in Quality, Process improvement and Change Management. Associate of the late Dr. W, Edwards Deming. Speaker/seminars at major Universities, Harvard, MIT, USC, Penn etc as well as at Economic conferences relating to building stronger America. Work referenced in numerous books & articles including the best seller "The Deming Management Method" translated to 15 languages. Consultant to major Corporations as well as government, health and education organizations, Chair of "Second Declaration of Independence" signed by national/ state legislators, business, unions, community & education leaders. Financial background. Started electronics company at age 30 which grew to 250 employees before moving to work with Deming implementation. Started PACE which became model for many states to help retain jobs.
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