In Primaries, Casting Votes Without Pulling a Lever
By DAVID W. CHEN
When New York City voters go to the polls on Tuesday to vote in primary elections for governor, attorney general, Congress and other offices, they may think they have showed up at the wrong location.
Gone will be the familiar if clunky voting booths with the lever machines and the throwback curtains. In their place will be tables where most people will be filling out SAT-style ovals on paper ballots, then feeding those ballots into an electronic voting machine not unlike a fax machine or an A.T.M.