HOW ALBANY PICKS A NEW VOTING MACHINE; VENDORS HAVE SPENT $1.2 MILLION LOBBYING LAWMAKERS TO PICK THEIR SYSTEMS.(News)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: May 2, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Erik Kriss Albany bureau

There's a million-dollar battle raging over what kinds of voting machines New Yorkers will use starting next year.

Thanks to the 2000 presidential election debacle in Florida, New York's mechanical lever machines should be gone by the November 2006 election, the result of a sweeping federal voting law requiring, in part, that voting systems be accessible to the disabled.

The decisions state officials make in the nex...

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