Johnson v. Martins

OPINION OF THE COURT

Under the Election Reform and Modernization Act of 2005 (L 2005, ch 181), adopted in order to implement New York’s new regime of voting by the use of electronic scanning machines, mandated by the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 USC § 15481), voters scan marked electronic ballots into a ballot scanner and wait for notice that the ballot has been received. In addition, in order to ensure that verifiable results are maintained, the ballot machines are required to retain the paper ballots or produce a voter verified permanent paper record which must be preserved to…