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ELECTRONIC IMAGES OF ELECTION BALLOTS MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAW (FOIL) REQUEST (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, over a concurrence and a two-justice dissent, determined electronic images of election ballots are accessible under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) after they have been preserved in accordance with the Election Law:

The dispute before us poses a question of public significance: whether electronic images of ballots cast in an election are accessible under the Freedom of Information Law … . We conclude that, once electronic ballot images have been preserved in accordance with the procedures set forth in Election Law § 3-222 (1), there is no statutory impediment to disclosure and they may be obtained through a FOIL request.

Our analysis is informed by the advent of electronic voting in New York (see generally Election Law § 7-202 [4]). As more fully set forth in the record, upon inserting a ballot into an electronic voting machine, it is scanned and an image of it is stored in a random fashion on portable flash drives, which preserve the secrecy of the ballot. The original ballot is then deposited by the scanner into a secure ballot box under the machine. After the polls close, the machine prints out a tabulated results tape containing the official record of votes cast on that particular machine. One of the flash drives is removed from the machine and returned to the applicable board of elections, while the other remains with the machine and is used during the recanvass process. As is relevant here, the content on the portable flash drives is then copied to permanent electronic storage media, such as a hard drive, after which the temporary storage media may be reused in another election … . Matter of Kosmider v Whitney, 2018 NY Slip Op 02517, Third Dept 4-12-18

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