CT Pull Lever Voting Machines from Elections

[brooklynite]

Source: AP

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Lever voting machines that voters have used since the 1920s to elect officeholders in Connecticut are history.

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told municipal elections officials today that towns and cities may no longer use the lever machines in primaries set for September Eleventh, ending their use.

They will be replaced with optical scan voting machines that officials say provide a reliable paper trail.

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In addition, a state law enacted this year requires recounts in 10 percent of voting precincts statewide to confirm that the new voting technology works. Bysiewicz says there is no way to comply with state law using the lever machines.

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[aquart]

1. Scared the betrayed citizens will rise up?

Can NY buy those lever machines as back up to our own? LOVE THE LEVERS!

[brooklynite]

2. That's how we got the LAST set...

The lever machines we're using in NY were purchased from Florida when they retired them in favor of the state of the art Votomatic punch-card machines.....

[adamuu]

7. hear, hear

What, are we so far advanced that we don't know how to do things MECHANICALLY anymore? Its all gotta be electronic... why, again?

[CTyankee]

3. I love our AG Blumenthal. He is a staunch pro choice and pro consumer

AG, always working for the people of CT. I wish he had run for governor as Jodi Rell is pretty much a nothing. He certainly has many supporters statewide and money (his wife's family owns the Empire State Building and they are also staunch supporters of liberal causes, including Planned Parenthood. I love their whole family.

[HockeyMom]

4. How I miss New York

Don't know what the hell I am going to do here in Florida now. It really worries me that my vote will not be counted.

Maybe I will plan a trip to NY to visit my kids around election time. Absentee ballot?????

Is Steve Levy still fighting the scraping of the lever machines? I sure hope so.

[MetaTrope]

5. Do what Ann Coulter did

She lives in New York, but illegally voted in Florida. Maybe some nice FBI man will speak out in your favor, too.

[flying_wahini]

6. check out the front page of CNN online right now...

Video called 'hackers crack voting machines in seconds"

[Alexander]

8. These are opti-scan machines with paper trails...

A bit more difficult to crack than DREs.