List of electronic voting machines in New York state
Following is a list of electronic voting machines in New York state.
In 2010 New York State was the last state to switch to electronic voting under the Help America Vote Act. In doing so, New York abandoned its Shoup Lever Machines which had been used since 1962 and were originally built by American Voting Machines Company in Jamestown, New York.[1][2][3]
New York had a long established history with the lever machines going back to the patent for the lever machine by Alfred J. Gillespie and Standard Voting Machine Company of Rochester, New York, in the late 1890s. The device drew a privacy curtain around the voter and simultaneously unlocked the machine's levers for voting. In 1898, Gillespie and Jacob Myers formed the American Voting Machines Company.[4]
New York had a long history of attempting to replace the machines including Edward Koch who urged they be replaced in 1985.[5]
Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast is used in 52 of the state 62's counties. The contracts were originally awarded to Sequoia Voting Systems but Dominion acquired the company in 2010. However, the machines in some of the state's largest cities such as New York City, Buffalo, New York and Albany, New York are the DS200 Ballot Scanner by Election Systems & Software.
Dominion had sued the New York City Board of Elections to stop the award of the $70 million contract for to ES&S saying that the contract was not the lowest bidder. New York City ES&S's offering were easier to set up. Courts did not issue a stay in the case noting that doing so would jeopardize the implementation of the vote in time for the election.[6]
Both companies had problems in the implementation in the first year with ES&S being criticized after it was revealed that poll workers were scanning the ballots with the ballot side visible to the public in the primary. Officials said they fixed the problem by training ballot workers.[7] Dominion suffered a problem in the 1st Congressional District in the general election after the machines initially indicated that Tim Bishop had won by 3,500 votes but by the next night officials had declared his opponent Randy Altschuler the victor by 400 votes.[8]
Electronic voting machines by county
County | Machine | Company |
Albany County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Allegany County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Bronx County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Broome County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Cattaraugus County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Cayuga County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Chautauqua County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Chemung County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Chenango County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Clinton County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Columbia County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Cortland County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Delaware County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Dutchess County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Erie County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Essex County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Franklin County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Fulton County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Genesee County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Greene County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Hamilton County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Herkimer County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Jefferson County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Kings County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Lewis County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Livingston County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Madison County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Monroe County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Montgomery County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Nassau County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
New York County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Niagara County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Oneida County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Onondaga County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Ontario County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Orange County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Orleans County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Oswego County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Otsego County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Putnam County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Queens County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Rensselaer County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Richmond County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Rockland County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Saratoga County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Schenectady County | DS200 Ballot Scanner | Election Systems & Software |
Schoharie County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Schuyler County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Seneca County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
St. Lawrence County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Steuben County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Suffolk County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Sullivan County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Tioga County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Tompkins County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Ulster County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Warren County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Washington County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Wayne County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Westchester County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Wyoming County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
Yates County | ImageCast | Dominion Voting Systems |
References
- ↑ "Voting machine - Rochester Wiki". Rocwiki.org. 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ "AVM Corp. - Lehman Brothers Collection". Library.hbs.edu. 1964-04-01. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ "American Locker Group Incorporated - Company History". Fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ "Vote: The Machinery of Democracy". Americanhistory.si.edu. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ "A Vote For New Voting Machines". Gotham Gazette. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ http://www.bolipari.com/boblog/2010/02/dominion-sues-to-stop-new-york-city-contract-with-ess/
- ↑ "New York primary election e-voting problems appear to be fixed". ComputerworldUK.com. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
- ↑ "Bishop Calls For Full Recount - Tim Bishop News and Comment". Politifi.com. 2010-11-06. Retrieved 2010-11-21.