Election Roundup and How to Use Those New Fangled Voting Machines

By on September 13, 2010 11:19 am in Brooklyn Heights, Election 10

Tomorrow is primary day in New York and our local races are interesting to say the least. Catch up on what’s happening and a video on how to use those new voting machines, after the jump.

52nd Assembly District Primary
Joan Millman profile [BHB]
Doug Biviano profile [BHB]
Biviano Bashes Millman [Boropolitics]
Millman vs. Biviano Debate [Brooklyn Paper]
The Media Reports on the Media Not Covering Biviano’s Campaign [BHB]

52nd AD Democratic District Leaders
 Jo Anne Simon guest blog [BHB]
Hope Reichbach guest blog [BHB]
Orwellian Mailing in the 52nd [AYR]
District Leader Races Why They Matter [BHB]

Roundups
Challengers Target Longtime Brooklyn Officials in Primary [Brooklyn Eagle]
NY Daily News on District Leader Races [NYDN]

Double check your polling place location at the Board of Elections website.

Voting machine video via yournabe.com

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  • AEB

    New fangled? One of the (many) horrors of my youth back in the Pleistocene Epoch involved tests for which one had to mark one’s answer with a soft pencil in the appropriate box-like space.

    One’s test sheet would then be read by a room-size computer.

    We are in the realm of regression here…

  • Obama?

    You know, comrades,” says Stalin, “that I think in regard to this: I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.

  • bornhere

    The “new” system seems more cumbersome than complex, and looks like it could have been the way people had to cast a vote before the phone booth design, levers, and handsome vinyl curtain came along. And now there’s a “Privacy Sleeve,” which looks suspiciously like what some of us might call “manila folder.” Leaps and bounds, here, for sure. Leaps and bounds.

  • Joe Nardiello

    The voting process is far easier.. than I’ve seen or read explained. Although from what I saw, and hear so far, it’s serving to make voting an exercise of younger voters.

    1. You sign in, and are handed a ballot (which is taken off the top of a large pad, by the poll workers).

    2. You fill it in by coloring-in an oval next to the Candidates name you want to vote for, by pen, at a nearby table almost like you’re choosing a Lotto winner, instead of a candidate). It’s easier than ever to Write In a candidate, now, by the way.

    3. Then, you walk it over to a small, ATM-looking machine where poll workers will help you insert the entire flat, 1-page ballot right into it… and you’re done.

    That’s it, essentially. Aside from a small index card they hand you, sort of as a ID for the poll-workers to know if you’re a Democrat (green) or a Republican (pink) being today is Primary Day for these 2 major parties. They take those back, at the end, for checking/tabulating later on.

    P.S. — Watched the video above.. first I’d seen them, as there were absolutely no “privacy sleeves” used at our polling place.