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....
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ONLY OFFICIAL RECOUNT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SO FAR
This is the only official hand recount of the 2024 Presidential election moving forward (so far)!
SMART Legislation (an Action Partner of SMART Elections) is the main plaintiff in a lawsuit asking for a full hand recount of the 2024 election — and we have great news! A judge has agreed to consider a hand recount of all the Presidential and Senate ballots in Rockland County.
FIRST HEARING GOES WELL
The first hearing on May 22nd went well. The Rockland county Board of Elections tried to have the case dismissed, but the judge said she will not dismiss the case at this time. They will file a motion to dismiss, and we will have a chance to respond.
In the meantime, the judge is allowing DISCOVERY to proceed. This is excellent. This means that we have the opportunity to find out many details about how the election was run that will help us investigate both in Rockland county and elections in other parts of the country as well.
We will be able to ask for election documents from the election and also depose the commissioners and other election staff.
PLEASE DONATE!ach This is a phenomenal opportunity, however it is going to be very expensive. We must pay high-end New York attorney fees, legal fees, travel & organizational costs. Each deposition is estimated at $12,000. We hope to ask for four.
We ask that you please make a tax-deductible donation today. Please become a monthly donor, as these costs will be ongoing as the lawsuit continues. Every donation helps.
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NEXT HEARING
The next hearing will be in-person Sept 22nd 9:30 am
Rockland County, New York Courthouse,
1 South Main Street, New City, NY 10956
4th floor, Courtroom 7, Room 468
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Please join us if you can
Do you live in or near Rockland County, New York?
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If you want to attend the hearing, fill out the Plaintiff form & check:
Yes, I will attend. We'll email you a reminder.
VOLUNTEERS WELCOME!
We welcome volunteers to help with this and other efforts we have underway.
PLAINTIFFS MAY BE ABLE TO JOIN
If you voted in the Nov 2024 General Election in Rockland County, NY on Election Day, Early Voting, or Mail-in, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO JOIN THE LAWSUIT!
Fill out this form to be a plaintiff and we will be in touch. Thank you!
If you voted in Rockland County NY, you can also sign an affidavit about how you voted, even if you don't want to be a plaintiff. This will help as we are comparing how people say they voted with the reported results, and in some districts it does not match. Please fill out a google form to say how you voted (if you don't mind saying).
SIGN AN AFFIDAVIT That You Voted in Rockland County NY.
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The lawsuit is a phenomenal opportunity to gather information about the 2024 election, including
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A second judge has recused himself in our New York City corruption case.
This is a clear indication that our case is consequential and has merit.
If the judges thought it was a flimsy case, they would have dismissed it.
But they realized the case has serious implications.
We are discussing options with the attorneys advising us, so that we can bring the facts of this corrupt election to the public.
This case has many similarities to the 2024 Presidential election.
For example, in the voting machines that were audited in this election (2024 June NYC Democratic Primary), the winning candidate has a much higher vote total (15% more) in Early Voting than on Election Day.
In the 2024 Presidential election, some states, like Nevada, according to an analysis done by the Election Truth Alliance, show a much higher vote total for Trump in Early Voting, than on election day.
These type of correlations between elections need to be studied further.
Litigation and legal fees are expensive. However at this point we believe that the courts are one of the main avenues open to us to improve U.S. elections. Many of the problems with U.S. elections have been brewing for years, including: poor election security, poor oversight of elections run by highly partisan election officials, show-boat audits & very little transparency. Our work addresses all of these issues.
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By Martha McHardy
US News Reporter
January 22, 2025
"A report released last week by the non-profit Smart Elections found that there are "serious concerns" that votes may have been tampered with in the 2024 election.
"There are very serious concerns about the 2024 election results focused on unnatural data patterns that are emerging daily," a summary of the report reads.
The report also suggests someone may have installed code on certain tabulators to shift votes after counting 400 ballots, avoiding detection in small recounts."
Trump, well-known for his voter fraud allegations, notably claiming Democrats stole the 2020 election, has not challenged the results of the 2024 election, which he won. This makes his recent remarks, highlighting his ally's deep knowledge of voting machines during Tuesday's speech, particularly unexpected."
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.
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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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?
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.
Please make a tax-deductible donation to help fund a lawsuit to stop the ExpressVote XL in any counties that have purchased it.
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Visit our partner SMART Legislation's website. They are fighting for legislation to protect the right to mark a ballot by hand.
Join the SMART Legislation weekly Friday meetings at 12pm ET. We work on legislation and lawsuits there to protect elections. This meeting is New York focused.
We give you the full story about this voting machine, the timeline, and what you can do to help stop this trainwreck. Remember that New York Congressional elections helped determine the balance of power in the House in 2022. Join us - and get involved. It's urgent and it matters!