"A long-delayed effort by New York State to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act, enacted after the 2000 election debacle, is encountering resistance in New York City, where officials insist on keeping the mechanical-lever voting machines that have been a mainstay of local elections since 1962.
Most of the counties have agreed to take part in the project, and 16 will switch entirely to the optical-scan machines, according to a list that was released on May 12 as part of the commission’s vote on the proposal. But there are notable holdouts: the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and Rockland Counties in the downstate suburbs. (Other counties that are not taking part include Clinton, Columbia, Essex, Washington and Warren.)"
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Michael H. Drucker
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