Mechanical Lever Voting Machines Could Be History After Today’s Vote. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor ...

The U.S.A has spent millions of dollars “upgrading” to electronic voting machines and the results are not good. Our elections these days are a mess. These new electronic machines have created a myriad ...

By around 1930, the majority of urban voters in the United States were using mechanical voting machines, so you have to look before that to see how well, or poorly, hand counting works.

Despite staunch opposition from the computer science community, ATM-style electronic voting may offer the best hope for escaping the mess inflicted by paper-based balloting systems.

Say what you want about the power of political machines – it’s tough to top the mechanical-lever voting machine for endurance. The sturdy metal boxes haven’t been produced for 18 ...

Mechanical lever voting machines and punch card systems were common, but these became bulky, outdated systems to manage. And after the contentious 2000 election, a law was passed to modernize ...

In fact, a 2007 analysis of California's electronic voting machines concluded, ... By the late 19th century, manipulation of printed ballots spawned a move to mechanical ballot marking, ...

An old mechanical lever voting machine at the Albany County Board of Elections on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012 in Albany, NY. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union) ...

The last elections, where there were considerable problems by counting votes in Florida have shown considerable flaws.<BR><BR>The answer was mainly introduction of eVoting machines.<BR><BR>The ...

On this day in 1899, Congress approved the use of mechanical voting machines for federal elections. Over the course of the 20th century, the machines gained in popularity. Above, Horace Curry in ...

Philadelphia had direct recording electronic (DRE) voting machines before 2018, which had an older type of touchscreen, according to Stewart. At the end of Election Day, one of the pollworkers would ...

Until 2006, voters in Connecticut used mechanical machines. They walked into a booth, pulled a handle that closed a curtain and made choices by depressing levers under candidates’ names.