Election News 2006

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October 2006

Advocates blast Westchester plan to keep some lever voting machines

October 24, 2006 - By Liz Anderson - The Journal News

Voting rights advocates identify additional problems with the

New York State Board of Elections plan to implement the Help America Vote Act

October 20, 2006 - Rochester Press Release

Levy fights on vs. new vote machines

October 6, 2006 - By RICK BRAND - Newsday Staff Writer

September 2006

Otsego buys $8,000 machine for disabled voters

August 2, 2006 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

August 2006

Westchester B.O.E. Finally Recognizes Disabled Voters

August 31, 2006 - By Maureen Keating Tsuchiya - The Westchester Guardian

HAVA-Dubious Law or Dubious Implementation?

By Helen S. Benlisa, Project HAVA Coordinator-Catskill Center for Independence

Clifton Perez, M.S.W., Systems Advocate-Independeint Linving Center of the Hudson Valley

Registar Star, August 24, 2006

New York’s Bumpy Road to Inclusive Elections for Voters with Disabilities

By Christine Zachmeyer - Independence Today, Issue 1, Vol. 1,

Advocate for disabled says group didn’t take voting-machine money

August 2, 2006 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

July 2006

Elections commissioners disagree on voting-machine type

July 29, 2006 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

Senate Passes Voting Law

Reprinted as appearing in Able Newspaper, July 2006 issue.

Disabled Voters and Rights Groups File Injunction

 Reprinted as appearing in Able Newspaper, July 2006 issue.

Hearings Friday on new voting machines

July 24, 2006 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

May 2006

State, federal officials near voting-machine deal

May 17, 2006 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

HAVA compliance discussed (pdf)

May 5, 2006 - Edward Munger Jr. - Gazzette Reporter

April 2006

New York election board sets standards for voting machines

April 28, 2006 - The Daily Star

BOE Develops Interim HAVA Plan for Primaries

HAVA Problems

April 16, 2006 - By MICHAEL LAMENDOLA - Gazette Reporter

Survey: Disabled prefer absentee ballots

April 10, 2006-By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

New York's new voting system must be accessible to the disabled

By Frank Pinisi

Program Services Coordinator for Southern Tier Independence Center

March 2006

State ordered to produce HAVA plan

March 23, 2006 - By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer

State committed to implementing HAVA, preserving voters' rights

March 17, 2006 - Times Union

State plans to install some voting devices by Sept.

March 15, 2006 - By Tom Grace, Cooperstown News Bureau

State asks for info on disabled voting machinery

March 10, 2006 - The Associated Press

Faster work sought on voting reform

March 8, 2006 - By JAMES M. ODATO and RICK KARLIN, Capitol bureau

Local commissioner joins voting-reform suit

March 7, 2006 - By Tom Grace, Cooperstown News Bureau

New York Is Sued by U.S. on Delay of Vote System

March 2, 200 6 - By MICHAEL COOPER

DOJ Sues New York State Over Voting Rights

March 1, 2006 - U.S. Newswire

U.S. Sues N.Y. Over Voting Rights Reform

March 2, 2006 - By MICHAEL COOPER, The New York Times

February 2006

New Yorkers face another election with lever-action machines

February 28, 2006 - By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press

State seeking to avert lawsuit

February 28, 2006 By James M. Odato, Capital Bureau

N.Y. may not meet voting deadline

February 15, 2006 - By Joseph Spector, Gannett News Service

Voters won’t use new machines in Sept., Otsego officials say

February 15, 2005 - By Tome Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

January 2006

ACCESSIBLE VOTING RIGHTS CRISIS IN NEW YORK

January 31, 2006 - By Brad Williams - NYSILC

A Private and Independent Vote: Still Long Overdue for Persons with Disabilities

By Lisa Tarricone - Journal News

Election reform must include state's disabled

January 15, 2006 - By BRAD WILLIAMS - Albany Times Union

’Newest thing’ not the best thing for voting

January 14, 2006 - By Bruce Endries - The Daily Star

Feds may sue N.Y. over voting

January 13, 2006 - By Patricia Breakey - Delhi News Bureau

Assemblymember Cahill:
New York Lags in Poll Site Access

January 12, 2006 (pdf fromat)

U.S. Threatens to Sue Albany Over Voting

January 12, 2006 - By MICHAEL COOPER

HAVA failings imperil state

January 12, 2006 - By JAY JOCHNOWITZ, State editor

Most accurate voting measures not yet in place

January 11, 2006 - By James V. Franco , The Record

Copy of Letter from Dept. of Justice

January 10, 2006 (pdf format)

Voting's future on display

January 6, 2006 - Joseph Spector - Staff writer