Will the lever voting machine never die? Though New York nixed the old machines a few years ago, they've still got them lying around, and now a few senators are pushing to get them reinstated for this year's mayoral election.
Yeterday, four senators proposed a law that would allow the Board of Elections to use the old voting machines instead of the new electronic ballots. The senators say they're concerned the new machines wouldn't be able to tally votes and be retested fast enough to handle the 14-day turnaround period between a primary and run-off mayoral election. And considering how super-fun those two-hour voting lines were during last year's presidential election, it's not surprising that there's concern. "These new-fangled voting machines are a disaster," State Senator Simcha Felder told the Daily News.
Meanwhile, the Board of Elections doesn't seem too happy that someone's trying to take away their $60 million toys—they voted against reinstating the old machines last week.
