The voting machine has had a pretty bumpy road to widescale
adoption–a fact which hasn’t really been helped along by a number of close call
elections in the past decade.
tricky relationship with the devices, as of late.
Back in September, the state replaced its unwieldy
80-year-old lever-based machines with some slick new ATM-like voting kiosks for
the primary election. The transition didn’t go off without a hitch, however. Poll
sites opened late, and many workers proved to be less than helpful when it came
to using the new devices.
The machines are getting a second chance during today’s
midterms. It turns out that this second attempt isn’t that much an improvement.
A CBS affiliate in
reporting “hiccups” at a number of polling locations. “One of three
ballot-scanning machines was out of service at the church in Mount Kisco where
the Democratic candidate for governor, Andrew Cuomo, voted Tuesday morning,”
the station reports.
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