All the hullabaloo about touchscreen voting machines and the lack of a paper trail got Joyce Dewsbury wondering about the old mechanical lever voting machines. How did they record votes, and was th… ...

They would then pull a big lever to cast their vote and open the curtain. Most states were using lever-voting machines that were no longer being manufactured anymore.

A fundamental flaw of direct-recording voting machines—that is, ones where you pull the lever on an old mechanical machine or you touch the touch screen on a modern one—all of those machines ...

When you pull the lever back, all evidence about what you, an individual voter did, disappeared. So if the programming of that machine was bad, you couldn’t recover. If the programming of a ...

WILTON - Upon hearing the town's old lever voting machines were bound for the scrap heap, two residents intervened, each paying $50 and, most importantly, offering homes for the 625-pound ...

Middletown retired its last standard voting machine, courtesy of the South Fire District, in the lobby of city hall Monday. These were replaced across the city for the 2005 municipal election by ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Going to the polls this year could be like stepping back in time to another era when voters had to pull down on levers to make their ballots count. Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation ...