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

CountyMachineCompany
Albany CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Allegany CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Bronx CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Broome CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Cattaraugus CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Cayuga CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Chautauqua CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Chemung CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Chenango CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Clinton CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Columbia CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Cortland CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Delaware CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Dutchess CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Erie CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Essex CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Franklin CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Fulton CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Genesee CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Greene CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Hamilton CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Herkimer CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Jefferson CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Kings CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Lewis CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Livingston CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Madison CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Monroe CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Montgomery CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Nassau CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
New York CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Niagara CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Oneida CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Onondaga CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Ontario CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Orange CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Orleans CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Oswego CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Otsego CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Putnam CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Queens CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Rensselaer CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Richmond CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Rockland CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Saratoga CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Schenectady CountyDS200 Ballot ScannerElection Systems & Software
Schoharie CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Schuyler CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Seneca CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
St. Lawrence CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Steuben CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Suffolk CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Sullivan CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Tioga CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Tompkins CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Ulster CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Warren CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Washington CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Wayne CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Westchester CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Wyoming CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems
Yates CountyImageCastDominion Voting Systems

References

  1. ↑ "Voting machine - Rochester Wiki". Rocwiki.org. 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  2. ↑ "AVM Corp. - Lehman Brothers Collection". Library.hbs.edu. 1964-04-01. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  3. ↑ "American Locker Group Incorporated - Company History". Fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  4. ↑ "Vote: The Machinery of Democracy". Americanhistory.si.edu. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  5. ↑ "A Vote For New Voting Machines". Gotham Gazette. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  6. ↑ http://www.bolipari.com/boblog/2010/02/dominion-sues-to-stop-new-york-city-contract-with-ess/
  7. ↑ "New York primary election e-voting problems appear to be fixed". ComputerworldUK.com. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
  8. ↑ "Bishop Calls For Full Recount - Tim Bishop News and Comment". Politifi.com. 2010-11-06. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
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