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N.Y. lawmakers to let counties choose their own voting methods

May 11, 2005

WNBC: After protracted negotiations over how best to modernize New York's voting booths, a key legislative committee is poised to let counties choose on their own.

The pending deal between negotiators for the state Senate and Assembly is designed to help bring New York into compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act in time for the November 2006 elections. A stumbling block has been whether to replace old voting machines with either ATM-style, touchscreen machines or optical scan technology that allows machines to "read" marks made on a paper ballot.

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