Many antiquated lever-operated voting machines are headed for museums or scrapyards as new optical scanning voting devices replace them in local elections. The Cayuga County Board of Elections mailed ...
The special elections Feb. 20 for two City Council seats in Brooklyn and Staten Island were supposed to be a milestone for city voters: the last hurrah for old-fashioned lever voting machines, which ...
Eight years after hanging chads marred a presidential election and spurred calls for nationwide reform of voting systems, the signature of Election Day here is shifting from the heavy clank of metal ...
Officials in New York City are looking to reintroduce lever voting machines for the upcoming mayoral election, citing procedural issues with the electronic scanners currently in use. As the New York ...
After the hanging-chad debacle in Florida four years ago, Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, which meant $4 billion for states that replaced punch-cards and lever machines with more reliable ...
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FILE - A county worker loads mail-in ballots into a scanner that records the votes at a tabulating area at the Clark County Election Department, Oct. 29, 2020, in Las Vegas. WLRN has partnered with ...
On the eve of another election, in addition to the party and candidate messages, there is a familiar air of dispute over how we run elections. Various states are considering mid-decade redistricting, ...