NY Assemby (not yet Senate) passed The Voting Systems Standards Act of 03

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The New York State Assembly has passed A-8847 "The Voting Systems Standards Act of 2003."

The bill authorizes procurement of new electronic voting machines that will comply with HAVA.

Most significantly, the law specifically requires that the new machines "produce and retain a voter verified permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity which shall record each vote to be cast and which shall be presented to the voter from behind a window or other device before the ballot is cast."

You can get the full text of the bill at: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=3DA08847&sh=3Dt

The bill memo and status are at: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=3DA08847

The Legislature is scheduled to adjourn Friday or Saturday and it is unclear whether the Senate will take up the bill before then. There is discussion, however, of a special session in September to iron out any legislation necessary to implement HAVA. The Assembly has clearly defined its position on this issue.