[nylug-talk] 2007 New York State Election Law and proposed Microsoft amendment

[Michael K Dolan]

Is there a "standard" paragraph or two that we can simply email to the
right representatives? For instance, on net neutrality issues, they've had
stock letters to Congressional representatives/senators... hate to sound
lazy, but while one might be in favor of this, I have not studied all the
issues to craft a well articulated message/points against this...



nylug-talk-bounces+mdoln=us.ibm.com at nylug.org wrote on 06/18/2007 05:24:40
PM:

> A copy of New York State's 2007 Election Law is at
>
>
http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/download/law/2007NYElectionLaw.pdf
>
> This copy is the first pdf file linked to on
>
> http://www.elections.state.ny.us/portal/page?_pageid=35,1,35_8424:
> 35_8445&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
>
>
> Microsoft has publically declared that it will not abide by the
> present New York State election law:
>
> http://www.nyvv.org/newdoc/NYSBOE_VendorMsg_041307.pdf
>
> and now Microsoft has proposed that the law be amended.  Here are
> the proposed Microsoft amendments:
>
> http://www.nyvv.org/newdoc/MSProposedAmendment.pdf
>
> The proposed amendments are to sections 1-104 and 7-208.  The
> amendments would allow all Microsoft OS code in any computer
> voting machine to be exempt forever from any examination by the
> State Board of Elections.  Most computer voting machines use both
> a Microsoft OS and standard Microsoft utilities.  The Microsoft
> utilities would also be exempt from any examination.
>
>
> Bo Lipari is our side's point man in this engagement:
>
> http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
>
> oo--JS.
>
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