Times Union: "Election security is vitally important to a functioning democracy. So is voter trust. Neither should be put in jeopardy by machines that could break a system that doesn't need fixing.”

BradBlog. “... we're joined today by MARILYN MARKS of the non-partisan, nonprofit Coalition for Good Governance for a bit of a rebuttal to Raffensperger and Sterling's testimony before the House J6 panel, and an update to a stunning and troubling story of corruption we initially reported here last month, which could have very serious ramifications for elections in both 2022 and 2024…."We have found nothing that would suggest that Biden should not have been declared the winner. However, there are massive problems with the audit, the recount, and probably the original count, as well," Marks describes.”

WAPO: “There are real deficiencies of security in our systems that can and need to be improved, but in many ways, the ‘big lie’ has tainted discussions or efforts,” Susan Greenhalgh, senior adviser on election security for the group Free Speech For People, told me. “There is fear any election security improvements could be twisted to validate the incredibly bogus claims from the Trump campaign.”

Times Union: SUMMARY: "New York elections could soon be at risk of getting hacked, after lobbyists, the NAACP and the Assembly elections committee chair teamed up to kill a bill banning certain voting machines.
After passing the Senate on May 31, the bill, sponsored by state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, D-Brooklyn, and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, D-Westchester, seemed like a solid bet for passage in the Assembly, since it was sponsored by nearly half of the Assembly’s Democrats, as well as several Republicans.

New York elections could soon be more vulnerable to hacks, after lobbyists, the NAACP, and the Assembly elections committee chair teamed up to kill an election security bill.

Finally! Top U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Issues Warning About Touchscreen Voting Dangers” …"The vulnerabilities, according to CISA, could allow manipulation of results in a way that would not necessarily be discovered by most security provisions employed by most jurisdictions which use these terrible types of voting systems. Halderman told AP that he believes it is not only the systems made by Dominion that are vulnerable. Similar touchscreen systems made by ES&S, the nation's largest vendor, are used in many more states across the country, or by Smartmatic, whose touchscreen BMDs are now forced on voters at the polling place here in Los Angeles County, the nation's largest single voting jurisdiction. They all have many of the same design flaws, such as the use of barcodes/QRCodes to tally ballots printed out by the systems, ignoring the human-readable selections printed on the same ballot paper that may or may not have been correctly verified by the voter.”

News from all over.

Good news; the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York passed at the last minute.
Bad news: the bill to preserve our hand-marked paper ballots by banning hybrid voting machines did not pass. A1115. Voters will not know if their ballots are counted as cast in counties that purchase these machines. Counties like Westchester have already purchased them and there are now no plans to retire them. These machines undermine the integrity of any audit to verify the machines count.