MIDDLETOWN — For many Americans, turning 18 and gaining the right to vote is a moment of great pride: taking marker to ballot and blackening a circle for each of their chosen candidates. Since 2005, ...

Section of the online exhibit Vote: The Machinery of Democracy focused on gear and lever voting, which was meant to ensure the confidentiality and efficiency of the election process. Shows the ...

Now to New York State where there have been other election problems. Election officials there say it's taking too long to finalize race results using electronic machines. So they're going old school ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — The Essex County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution Monday asking the state Legislature to let the county keep using lever voting machines, which are supposed to be replaced by ...

Connecticut may discover that something new is not something better as it moves toward scrapping its old-but-reliable lever voting machines. The state is seeking bids on electronic voting machines so ...

(11/13/06) THE BRONX - Election experts in Bronx and New York City are discussing which voting method should be used at next year's polls. An edict mandates the old lever voting machines must be ...