NEW VOTING MACHINE DEMONSTRATION
As you no doubt know, the old lever voting machines have gone the way of the rotary telephone, replaced by new optical scanning machines, a device that is very foreign and unfamiliar to many New Yorkers.
To help ease the transition, Citizens Union, along with the NYC Board of Elections and St. Francis College, is holding a demonstration of the new machines four days prior to the election on Friday, September 10th, from 5-7 pm at St. Francis College in the Callahan Center, 180 Remsen St. in Brooklyn Heights, accessible by subways 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall or N, R to Court St. At the event, New Yorkers will have the opportunity to cast a mock vote using the new machines, which involves completing a paper ballot and feeding the ballot into a computerized scanner that reads the vote and retains the paper ballot. Ballot marking devices will also be available for those who need assistance in voting. NYC Board of Elections staff will be on hand to guide attendees through the process of voting on the new machines. To RSVP for the event, please call 212-227-0342 ext. 47 or email events@citizensunion.org .
If you can't attend this particular session, there are others taking place all over the City.