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Published 2:36 PM EDT, June 26, 2025
NEW CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / June 26, 2025 / SMART Legislation, the lead plaintiff in a seminal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential and Senate election results in Rockland County, New York, submitted fifteen pages of document requests and a series of questions to the Rockland County Board of Elections, as part of the discovery process this week.
SMART Legislation is the action arm of the nonpartisan nonprofit SMART Elections. Both organizations are dedicated to ensuring fair and accurate elections.
Discovery Requests Include Software, Hardware, and Password Protocols
Due to irregularities listed in the initial complaint, plaintiffs are seeking evidence about how the election was conducted. Documents requested include information about voting machines; voter rolls; software; software updates; hardware, including forensic grade copies of hard drives; diagrams of all equipment, including network and Wi-Fi components; and flash drives that carry election results.
The document requests also cover security protocols, such as rules for password creation and chain of custody procedures; lists of workers; financial interactions, such as vendor contracts; and communications with voting machine manufacturers, including Elections Systems & Software (ES&S) and the testing lab Pro V&V, among others.
Inquiries About Starlink
Plaintiffs additionally presented the Board with the first in a series of inquiries including questions about modem, Wi-Fi, or cellular connections to Rockland County's election systems; whether the county was using either Starlink's Direct to Cell service, or a program known as Ballotproof[1]; and if any irregularities in the 2024 election were reported or investigated.
Discovery is proceeding at the direction of Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court, who ruled in the lawsuit's first hearing on May 22nd, that discovery would proceed....
Exclusive: 2024 Election Results Lawsuit DocumenTS REQUESTED
Published Jun 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM EDT
The lead plaintiff in a legal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 election, has submitted 15 pages of document requests as part of the discovery process.
SMART Legislation, the action arm of nonpartisan watchdog group SMART Elections, also submitted a series of questions to the Rockland County Board of Elections in New York this week, according to court filings reviewed by Newsweek.
"The best way to reassure the public about the accuracy of the election results in Rockland County, New York, is to conduct a full, transparent, hand recount of the 2024 Presidential and Senate elections," Lulu Friesdat, the founder and executive director of SMART Legislation, said in a statement to Newsweek. "That is why we have requested it, and so far, the judge seems to agree" ....
What To Know
The plaintiffs are seeking evidence about how the 2024 election was conducted due to the irregularities detailed in the initial complaint, according to SMART Legislation's press release.
Documents requested include information about voting machines; voter rolls; software; software updates; hardware, including forensic-grade copies of hard drives; diagrams of all equipment, including network and Wi-Fi components; and flash drives that carry election results.
The Board of Elections has been asked to provide documents concerning "any actual or alleged irregularities, errors, problems, or misalignment of election results or voter rolls" in the 2020 or 2024 general elections, according to documents.
The document requests also cover security protocols, such as rules for password creation and chain of custody procedures; lists of workers; financial interactions, such as vendor contracts; and communications with voting machine manufacturers including Elections Systems & Software and testing lab Pro V&V.
SMART Elections reported in February that a software update to some ES&S systems were not sufficiently tested. Jack Cobb, the director of the federally accredited testing lab Pro V&V, previously told Newsweek that the changes were not "of any significance."
But SMART Legislation said a technical adviser who was consulted disagreed with the testing lab's classification of the updates as minimal, saying it "is a major change and should require closer inspection as to what the changes are."
SMART Legislation also asked the Board of Elections to answer questions about modem, Wi-Fi or cellular connections to Rockland County's election systems and to confirm if it has ever used either Starlink satellites' Direct to Cell service or a program known as BallotProof.
They also asked if any individual or organization had made any type of complaint or expressed concern about possible inaccuracies in election results from January 1, 2020 to the present.
What People Are Saying
Lulu Friesdat, the founder and executive director of SMART Legislation, said in a statement provided to Newsweek: "One of our main concerns at this point is whether the chain of custody of the ballots and the equipment has been robust enough for the public to have confidence in the paper ballots. That is the reason for many of our discovery requests."
County Attorney Thomas Humbach said in a statement to Newsweek: "We believe that this claim has no merit, and that the petitioners do not qualify for a recount as a matter of law."
What's Next
The lawsuit is seeking a full, hand recount of ballots cast in the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County.
The Rockland County Board of Elections will have to respond to discovery requests and the questions, and plaintiffs will seek to conduct depositions.
The next hearing is scheduled for September 22, and the case is expected to go to trial early next year.
2024 Election Results Under Scrutiny as Lawsuit Advances
Published Jun 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM EDT | Updated Jun 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM EDT
A legal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 election is moving forward. The lawsuit, brought by SMART Legislation, the action arm of SMART Elections, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed the lawsuit over voting discrepancies in Rockland County, New York. Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruled in open court in May that the allegations were serious enough for discovery to proceed.
Newsweek has contacted SMART Elections for comment via email.
What To Know
According to the complaint, more voters have sworn in legal affidavits that they voted for independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare than the Rockland County Board of Elections counted and certified, contradicting those results. The complaint also cited numerous statistical anomalies in the presidential election results.
They include multiple districts where hundreds of voters chose the Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, but none voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic candidate for president.
Max Bonamente, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville and the author of the Statistics and Analysis of Scientific Data, said in a paper that the 2024 presidential election results were statistically highly unlikely in four of the five towns in Rockland County when compared with 2020 results....'
What People Are Saying
Lulu Friesdat, the founder and executive director of SMART Legislation, said in a statement: "There is clear evidence that the Senate results are incorrect, and there are statistical indications that the presidential results are highly unlikely.
"If the results are incorrect, it is a violation of the constitutional rights of each person who voted in the 2024 Rockland County general election. The best way to determine if the results are correct is to examine the paper ballots in a full public, transparent hand recount of all presidential and Senate ballots in Rockland County. We believe it's vitally important, especially in the current environment, to be absolutely confident about the results of the election."
Max Bonamente said in a paper on the voting data from Rockland County: "These data would require extreme sociological or political causes for their explanation, and would benefit from further assurances as to their fidelity."
What's Next
The lawsuit is seeking a full, hand recount of ballots cast in the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County. A hearing has been scheduled for September 22.
Press Release — APnews.com 8:01 AM EDT, May 29, 2025
NEW CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 29, 2025 / A seminal case questioning the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential and Senate election results in Rockland County, New York, is moving forward. In open court last Thursday, Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court, ruled that discovery must proceed, pushing the lawsuit brought by SMART Legislation into the evidence-gathering stage. The lawsuit seeks a full hand recount of the Presidential and U.S. Senate races in Rockland County.
SMART Legislation, the action arm of SMART Elections, is the lead plaintiff in the case. Both organizations are dedicated to ensuring fair and accurate elections.
“There is clear evidence that the senate results are incorrect, and there are statistical indications that the presidential results are highly unlikely,” stated Lulu Friesdat, Founder and Executive Director of SMART Legislation. “If the results are incorrect, it is a violation of the constitutional rights of each person who voted in the 2024 Rockland County general election. The best way to determine if the results are correct is to examine the paper ballots in a full public, transparent hand recount of all presidential and senate ballots in Rockland County. We believe it’s vitally important, especially in the current environment, to be absolutely confident about the results of the election.”
As stated in the complaint, more voters have sworn they voted for independent U.S. Senate candidate Diane Sare than the Rockland County Board of Elections counted and certified, directly contradicting those results. Additionally, the presidential election results exhibit numerous statistical anomalies. The anomalies in the presidential race include multiple districts where hundreds of voters chose the Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand for Senate, but where zero voters selected the Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris....
stop the expressvote xl
What's Happening with NY Voting?
New York elections are at a dangerous crossroads. New types of voting machines, called “all-in-one” and “universal-use”, are attempting to flood the state. After a four-year battle against it, a new All-in-One voting machine called the ExpressVote XL was approved on 8/2/23 by the NY State Board of Elections.
These systems do not allow you to vote with a pen and paper. They will radically change the way we vote. Experts say they will increase costs, and wait times, especially in communities of color. Experts say: elections conducted on these systems cannot be confirmed by audits
The ExpressVote XL also wraps your vote in a barcode. The barcode is what's counted, not the text you see. There is no way for you to verify who you are voting for. In 2023 in Northampton County, PA the ExpressVote XL printed different candidates on the summary card than the ones that voters selected. But the machine did not count the vote it showed on paper. It scanned a barcode and actually counted the vote for the opposite candidate of what was on the paper.
What does this demonstrate?
- The ExpressVote XL can flip votes.
- The ExpressVote XL can count the vote for a different candidate than what is on the paper summary card.
New Yorkers have been voting with either a pen and paper or a ballot-marking device for over 10 years. That system works. Voters can vote in the way that they prefer.
Yet despite all the warnings about these voting machines Erie, Monroe and Orange Counties are purchasing them. Suffolk County seems to be moving forward with a purchase as well.
Albany Times Union Editorial against ExpressVote XL.
Albany Times Union article explaining the unfortunate spread of the voting machine across the state.
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2024 ELECTION - DROP-OFF ANALYSIS
MULTI-STATE ANALYSIS
WHAT IS DROP-OFF? Drop-off is not a formal term, as far as we know. It refers to the difference between the votes for the President and the next down-ballot race. For this study, we calculated the drop-off, for the 2024 presidential election, both in raw numbers and in percentages for each major party (Democratic and Republican) for 17 states.
You can read more about the analysis on our original Substack post on this topic. Please subscribe and join the conversation.
There is an overview below that shows the differences in drop-off between the six swing and eleven non-swing states that were included in this data set.
Drop-off bar charts and full analysis by county are available for each state that is included in the study. Feel free to explore them. We welcome you comments on the Substack, or via DM there.
What did we find in this study?
There are often many more votes for the Republican presidential candidate (Trump) than for the Republican Senate candidate (or major down-ballot race).
Especially in the swing states, we did not find this on the Democratic side.
Instead, on the Democratic side, we find an opposite phenomenon. There are a large number of votes for the Democratic Senate candidate (or major down-ballot race) where there is no vote for the Democratic presidential candidate (Harris).
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