New York Focus
"...the state Board of Elections may soon approve certain voting machines that experts say are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. A bill that would have banned those machines...died in the state Assembly after the elections committee chair refused to let it come to a vote."
This article features SMART Election’s partner project, SMART Legislation.
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City & State New York
"In a letter shared with City & State, election security experts and good government groups laid out the various reasons why lawmakers should ban the hybrid voting machines...
SMART Elections...helped organize this letter, shared research with election officials about the risks associated with the hybrid machines."
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The New York Times
"The New York City Board of Elections, which has a history of mishaps, is now under intense fire for its error in releasing mayoral primary results."
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"...one voting machine company cynically attacks its honest critics."
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"Ballot-marking devices in key swing states could give him the perfect excuse to contest the election"
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Lulu shared the experience of poll watchers with the Brooklyn Transparency Pilot project and how their efforts were met with hostility and obstruction by the Board of Elections.
Lulu Friesdat | The Hill | August 22, 2020
"Early voting may carry increased security risks, but election officials could alleviate some of these with publicly viewable video surveillance of the voting machines, as well as all ballots and equipment such as memory cards. Strict chain of custody procedures protect us all, and increase voter confidence at a time when voters have acknowledged being worried about hacking."
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Lulu Friesdat | Imby | January 24, 2020
"Elections in the U.S. are not run by neutral administrators. They are run by the parties. They are not run for the benefit of voters or the impartial determination of who has the most votes. Each party fights tooth and nail to run the elections so that their candidates benefit."
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Bennie J. Smith | The Commercial Appeal | November 21, 2019
"We’ve blindly trusted voting technology until it recently came under intense scrutiny. Many technologists, concerned citizens and others now want to replace voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots to record our votes. Combined with post-election audits, these low-tech methods provide evidence that voters’ choices were counted correctly when tabulated."
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Lulu Friesdat | The Hill | October 2, 2019
"...it’s important to examine how security flaws in our country’s voting equipment increase the vulnerability of our elections."
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Lulu Friesdat | The Hill | August 19, 2019
"...the ability to access the core controls of these voting machines illustrates that malware could easily be planted on them. That malware can change vote totals, or prevent thousands of people from voting."
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KCBS Radio | July 24, 2021
"The New York City board of elections tried to do-over its ranked-choice voting tally for a second time on Wednesday, after mistakenly including 135,000 "test" ballots in the count. The still incomplete tally shows first round leader Eric Adams remaining ahead, but 100,000 absentee ballots remain uncounted and could decide the race. For more, KCBS Radio News Anchor Liz Saint John spoke with Lulu Friesdat, Executive Director of Smart Elections."
WBAI 99.5 FM | August 26, 2020
On International Women's Day 2020, Lulu Friesdat talks with WBAI about the current situation with voter suppression in this country. "One of the things to really keep in mind when you talk about voter registration, voter participation is that in this country voting has never been something that was intended for everyone. It's always been a kind of an exclusive club."
The BradCast | 8/31/2020
"LULU FRIESDAT, co-founder of SmartElections.us and ROBIN GIBSON, longtime Los Angeles Election Integrity advocate, discuss the certification of Los Angeles County's updated voting systems, things that could mitigate some of the worst dangers of the system ahead of the 2020 election, and the sole public comments hearing."
The BradCast | 8/23/2019
Lulu tells Brad: "We have state after state after state...where you have a vast majority of citizens coming to these Board of Election meetings saying 'We want hand-marked paper ballots! We want voting systems that we can trust! We don't want touchscreen barcode systems!' And the election officials are putting in place those electronic touchscreen barcode systems that are the exact ones that people are protesting against."
Lulu also discusses the disturbing news out of DefCon's Voting Village and the launch of smartelections.us.
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