The integrity of our democracy is in jeopardy, with hackers increasingly threatening our voting systems. Citizens for Voting Integrity New York is working locally and nationally to protect our democracy to ensure that every vote is counted as cast.
Citizens for Voting Integrity is a non-partisan group formed when the Help America Vote Act of 2002 HAVA required that New York replace lever voting machines with new computerized voting equipment. Working together with New Yorkers for Verified Voting, the League of Women Voters, the Sierra Club, Count the Paper and other groups, CVI successfully worked for adoption of a voting system based on paper ballots rather than hackable touchscreen voting machines.
Since that time, Citizens for Voting Integrity New York has been working to reform election law to create elections that are:
Verifiable: Whenever possible, ballots must be hand marked by the voter so the voter’s intent is clear.
Secure: Hand-to-eye audits and recounts of voter-verified paper ballots sufficient to detect and correct incorrect electoral outcomes prior to certification of results.
Transparent: The public must have the right to observe audits and recounts of the vote and to review ballot images and cast vote records, consistent with the preservation of ballot secrecy.
Our Mission
The mission of Citizens for Voting Integrity New York is to protect democracy by ensuring that every vote is counted as cast. Elections must be secure, transparent and verifiable.