The 10 members returned last week for the, oh, millionth time to the question of how the board might find a way to report Election Night results before, oh, the coming of the dawn. They talked themselves hilariously into oblivion.
Everyone expected that vote-scanning machines, introduced in 2010, would allow for fast electronic computations of who won and who lost. Instead, the board prints paper tapes out of thousands of machines and then has workers cut the tapes into scraps by election district, write numbers district by district on tally sheets, add up the numbers, write down the totals on tally sheets and give them to police for entry into station house computers for dissemination to The Associated Press.
The spectacle has made the board an object of ridicule as the members have gone around in circles, considering and dropping solutions as simple as uploading vote data electronically.
As a monitor of polling sites' optical scanners for the New York Independence Party, they also post a copy of the tapes near each machine so the party monitor can take their parties counts for verification under state laws. So any change will also have to accommodate the major and minor party poll watcher's job.
Use the above link to read the entire article in the New York Daily News.
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Michael H. Drucker
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