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Voters across Westchester County will have to become familiar with new procedures to have their choices counted at election time. Casting a ballot in the county is catching up with the electronic age.

Residents going to the polls, beginning with the county’s primary elections on September 14, will be confronted with something different: optical scan electronic voting machines. The apparatus is contemporary, but the voting process is undeniably a trifle more complicated than with the traditional lever style machine it is replacing. The lever type machine has been used, in one form or another, for over a century.  more »