New York City Wants To Revive Old Voting Machines

McGruber writes "The NY Times reports, 'New York City has spent $95 million over the past few years to bring its election process into the 21st century, replacing its hulking lever voting machines with electronic scanners. But now, less than three years after the new machines were deployed, election officials say the counting process with the machines is too cumbersome to use them for the mayoral primary this year, and then for the runoff that seems increasingly likely to follow as soon as two weeks later. In a last-ditch effort to avoid an electoral embarrassment, New York City is poised to go back in time: it is seeking to redeploy lever machines, a technology first developed in the 1890s, for use this September at polling places across the five boroughs. The city's fleet of lever machines was acquired in the 1960s and has been preserved in two warehouses in Brooklyn, shielded from dust by plastic covers."

a technology first developed in the 1890s

[Culture20]

You know, I redeploy fire regularly. It's a technology first developed in pre-history.

Louisiana sold its old lever voting machines

[Dareth]

Louisiana sold its old lever voting machines to Mexico when it got the new "touch" voting machines.

You would not believe how pissed off the Mexicans were when Edwin Edwards [wikipedia.org] was voted in as President of Mexico.