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NYC chooses Omaha company for new voting machines ...

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NYC chooses Omaha company for new voting machines ...

So says the Times ... read all about it! :)

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/ ... -machines/

(Notice that they did not qualify "Omaha" with "Nebraska".) :)

NY Times wrote:The voting levers are officially history.

After years of delays and fierce lobbying, the city’s Board of Elections on Tuesday afternoon selected Election Systems and Software, an Omaha company, to provide new electronic voting machines in time for the September 2010 primary.

Voters will now be required to fill out paper ballots with ovals, similar to SAT exams, before feeding them into a fax-like scanner.

The change means that New York City will finally be in compliance with the federal Help America Vote Act of 2002. That law was passed to avoid a repeat of the recount debacle in Florida after the 2000 presidential election, and to help disabled people vote.
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Re: NYC chooses Omaha company for new voting machines ...

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Omababe wrote:(Notice that they did not qualify "Omaha" with "Nebraska".) :)
Win!
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