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The Justice Department has threatened to sue, warning in a letter to state officials last month that New York had fallen further behind every other state in complying with the Help America Vote Act, which was passed after the 2000 presidential election. Douglas A. Kellner, a co-chairman of the Board of Elections, said that the Department of Justice had been telling them every day for the last three weeks that they were going to sue them the next day if we didn't agree to the last version of the consent order. The Justice Department has threatened to sue, warning in a letter to state officials last month that New York had fallen further behind every other state in complying with the Help America Vote Act. The board closed part of its meeting to the public, saying that members planned to discuss the proposed settlement with the federal government and that the Justice Department had requested secrecy.