Monday, September 13, 2010

NY : In Primaries, Casting Votes Without Pulling a Lever

~~ I am not a fan of electronic voting as I have posted here often ,, but now it is in my home state -
- so I will have to grin and bear it . ~~
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September 12, 2010

In Primaries, Casting Votes Without Pulling a Lever

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.