Sentences with phrase «lever machines»

Say what you will about those old lever machines, you could at least line up the candidates for every race in columns on a paper ballot.

(This wasn't an issue with the old mechanical lever machines).

She so strongly opposes the use of touchscreen voting machines with or without paper trails that she would opt for the continued use of lever machines or paper only, in violation of HAVA mandates for persons with disabilities to be able to cast a secret and independent ballot.

The county, which has used mechanical lever machines for generations, has chosen optical scanners over electronic touch - screen voting machines, which have been the subject of controversy because they keep no physical record of votes.

Even though New Yorkers will have to vote with old - fashioned lever machines in the September primary elections, New York campaign finance officials and candidates are looking to 21st century technology to try and encourage voter participation and interest, especially among younger voters.

By then, New York State had asked all counties to replace lever machines with optical scanners or other devices that would ensure a paper trail if the machines malfunctioned.

The flexible, versatile, three - lever machine dispenses two single flavors of gelato, ice cream or sorbet and one mix of the two flavors.

Senator Gustavo Rivera (D - Bronx) introduced an amendment for public financing of elections to a bill authorizing lever machines for run - off elections.

A supporter of the convention, Davis is challenging the ballot placement given it's the first time in recent political history the once every 20 year referendum is being put to voters on paper, not lever machines.

Only lever machines and DREs eliminate the need for paper.

(It was attached to Sen. Marty Golden's bill allowing NYC to return to the old lever machines for the upcoming citywide elections).

Federal legislation called the «Help America Vote Act» or HAVA requires that Boards of Elections across New York State jettison the traditional mechanical lever machines.

The NYC Board of Elections has released updated results from last Tuesday's Democratic primary following the recanvass of the old lever machines, and the outcome is more good news for Bill de Blasio.

Fort Greene resident Yashna Padamsee, 34, said she was concerned when poll workers at Brooklyn Tech told her she needed to fill out an emergency paper ballot rather than use a lever machine.

At J.H.S. 190 in Queens, site coordinator Stephen Pheffer said one of the lever machines was down and another was not working very well.

Lhota was one of a host of voters who had trouble with the old lever machines — which were resurrected for fear the new touch - screen voting machines would be too unstable for the primary — as problems popped up across the city, election monitors said.

This is a huge opportunity, For the first time in history, if all goes well, once this new technology is in place, voters who are blind, or who have limited manual dexterity, or other disabilities that have kept them from using the lever machines, will be able to cast an independent ballot without assistance of anyone else.

The board began its official canvass of the lever machines on Friday, moving the city closer to resolution in the Democratic mayoral race, officials said.

It took the BOE several years to choose a replacement for the old lever machines, which had to be re-used one election because of confusion over the new machines.

«You're now voting on a paper ballot The lever machines are gone,» Kiggens said.

The county unrolled a new voting system with the primary elections in September, more than three years after it lost a lawsuit against the state to challenge the implementation of a federal law requiring an end to all voting by mechanical lever machines.

In 2006, County Executive Steve Levy sued the New York State Board of Elections, which was charged with implementing the federal mandate, citing the lever machines» reliability and the cost of replacing 1,500 machines.

There were many write - in votes for various positions, but with the modern voting devices replacing the old lever machines, those write - in ballots were sealed in a freezer bag and delivered to the BOE.

New York State used a different voting process than Florida, but the law found that lever machines were prone to several glitches and problems and required them, as well as all paper - punch systems like Florida's, to be replaced with either optical scanners or touch - screen machines.

He said that it will also be easier for people to write in candidates, because the lever machines had an unwieldy window high up on the ballot where voters had to reach up to write in candidates» names.

Now the U.S. employs five different voting systems: punch cards, paper ballots, optical scans, lever machines and electronic voting machines, also called Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) machines.

«If you buy a lever machine, that's what you've got.

After months of research, project members concluded that lever machines, punch cards, and Internet voting schemes all have flaws.

The results are in: Going 5 weeks without any lower body barbell training (I did smith machine squats, lever machine squats, smith machine good mornings, lever machine good mornings, hammer...

Leg extensions are exercises usually done with a lever machine in a gym.

The posters are actual, unused wall ballots from New York on Election Day (and as my fellow New York voters know, each was housed inside a gigantic pull - lever machine that seems like it predated Taft).