New York's Decades-Old Voting Machines Finally Dead: Get Ready for the New...
Notices about how to use the new electronic voting machines are being sent out by the NYC Board of Elections. A reader who received one passed along their copy to me.The new machines will debut this...
View ArticleNYC Ballot Design Could Cause Confusion
New York City's new paper ballot includes several trouble spots where voters could easily make mistakes, like those made by WNYC's Brian Lehrer and Azi Paybarah when they tried, according to experts in...
View ArticleI'm a Paper Ballot
When voters go to the primary polls on September 14, they will use New York's new paper ballots for the first time. WNYC's Brian Lehrer and Azi Paybarah recently took the new ballot for a test drive.
View ArticleElection Watchdogs Positioned to Record Voting Mishaps Caused By New Ballots
Voting rights advocates are poised with poll watchers, online surveys and phone hotlines to record what they think is going to be a chaotic day as New York City residents try out new electronic voting...
View ArticleVoting Vignettes
Charles Blow, New York Times visual Op-Ed columnist; Julie Lasky, editor of the Change Observer channel at Design Observer and former editor-in-chief of I.D.; and Milton Glaser, designer of the "I...
View ArticleVoting Issues
Edward-Isaac Dovere, editor of City Hall, a website and monthly publication focused on New York politics and policy, talks about the problems some voters experienced yesterday at the polls and...
View ArticlePublic Advocate: Board of Elections Not Solely Responsible for Primary Day...
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio says the city Department of Education and the Police Department share responsibility with the City Board of Elections for the widespread voting problems on Primary Day.De...
View ArticleBoard of Elections, City Council Tussle Over Primary Day Voting Problems
The New York City Board of Elections felt the heat from City Council at a hearing Monday over primary day voting problems last month. Voters and poll workers met several unexpected challenges that day....
View ArticleVoting Basics
Julie Dent, NYC Board of Elections president, talks about what voters can expect on Tuesday.
View ArticleTight Races Could Lead To Recounts
On Tuesday, voters will cast their ballots, bringing mid-term election season to a close. Unless, of course, some races are too close to call. Polls show that close Senate and gubernatorial races in...
View ArticleVoting Post-Storm
WNYC reporters Brigid Bergin and Anna Sale report on the state of voting machines and other election day logistics in storm-damaged New York and New Jersey.
View ArticleReporter’s Notebook: Election Conference Makes NY Look Old School
On the sixth floor of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs this week, despite not enough coffee and too many pastries, election experts from across the country were buzzing about...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Voting Machines
A plan to bring back lever voting machines is picking up steam in Albany. Lawmakers are considering a proposal that would use the old machines for the upcoming primary and run-off elections in...
View ArticleLever Machines; SCOTUS Preview; Legal Weed; Little League
There's a proposal to bring back the old lever voting machines temporarily in New York. Hear a debate between Common Cause's Susan Lerner and Republican State Senator Martin Golden. Plus: New York...
View ArticleLever Voting Machine Revival
Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, and Martin Golden, New York State Senator (R-22), discuss the proposal in the state legislature to allow the use of old-fashioned lever...
View ArticleScanners Stumble at Dozens of NYC Polling Sites
Voters have reported problems at more than 40 different sites around New York City, mostly from malfunctioning scanning machines and confusing directions given by poll workers.The greatest number of...
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