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.

In fact, when it comes to voting machines, ... For many, the mechanical lever machines bring back a certain nostalgia. Pulling the large red lever was almost synonymous with casting your vote.

We’ve gotten rid of the punch card and mechanical lever voting machines. Those are now not so ancient history. What we’re left with are two categories of voting machines, both of which were ...

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.

Voting machine issues plagued some polling locations in North Texas during the first week of early voting, but counties nonetheless saw high turnout. As voters cast ballots for big-ticket races ...

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Mechanical lever voting machines and punch card systems were common, but these became bulky, outdated systems to manage.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 ...

STANDARD VOTING MACHINE; A Number of Them Placed on Exhibition in This City. How the Citizen Records His Vote and This Mechanical Device Begisters It. Share full article. Jan. 22, 1900.

Connecticut lawmakers authorized state officials to borrow more than $25 million earlier this year to purchase more than 3,000 new voting machines, but it remains unclear when that equipment will ...

Voting machine issues plagued some polling locations in North Texas during the first week of early voting, but counties nonetheless saw high turnout. As voters cast ballots for big-ticket races ...