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It is critical that there be a voter verified paper ballot to recount or audit. We urge the New Jersey Legislature pass an appropriations bill to fund the purchase of precinct-based optical scan voting technology, which would effectively implement the existing laws requiring a voter verified paper audit trail and an audit. Optical scan voting technologies use an optical scanner to read marked paper ballots and tally the results.
• NJ is one of just five remaining states (along with Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Delaware) that still uses paperless electronic voting machines (DREs), even though they have been judged to be insecure and unreliable because computerized voting equipment is subject to programming error, equipment malfunction, and malicious tampering.
• The integrity of the vote has become an important public issue, following the 2016 election. Numerous studies have documented the failures and weaknesses of DREs, and Princeton Professor Andrew Appel dem...
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It is critical that there be a voter verified paper ballot to recount or audit. We urge the New Jersey Legislature pass an appropriations bill to fund the purchase of precinct-based optical scan voting technology, which would effectively implement the existing laws requiring a voter verified paper audit trail and an audit. Optical scan voting technologies use an optical scanner to read marked paper ballots and tally the results.
• NJ is one of just five remaining states (along with Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Delaware) that still uses paperless electronic voting machines (DREs), even though they have been judged to be insecure and unreliable because computerized voting equipment is subject to programming error, equipment malfunction, and malicious tampering.
• The integrity of the vote has become an important public issue, following the 2016 election. Numerous studies have documented the failures and weaknesses of DREs, and Princeton Professor Andrew Appel demonstrated in New Jersey Superior Court the ease of hacking a DRE to flip election results without detection. In 2013, the results of a local election in Cumberland County were reversed in a repeat election when it was shown that the machines had flipped the votes due to human error.
• In 2005, the Legislature passed the Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail Act that requires a voter verified paper ballot to be the ballot of record. However, implementation of the law was postponed until federal or state monies become available. In 2009, the Legislature passed a law requiring a random audit of election results. Since this can only be done effectively with paper ballots, this has not been implemented either.
• The DRE voting machines are at least 20 years old and are no longer made. Replacement of DREs with precinct based optical scan machines would ultimately save New Jersey money, as fewer machines are needed, they are smaller and more compact to store, and easier to transport.
• It is time the Legislature pass an appropriations bill that will fund the mandate for voter verified paper ballots and election audits.
