More wrangling about voting
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- February
- 6
Another day, another legal action surrounding New York’s ill-starred efforts to pick new voting machines.
Today state Supreme Court Judge Kimberly O’Connor issued an order in Albany allowing counties to consider buying voting machines from two additional companies, but only for a day. She is to issue a final ruling tomorrow and what machines are in and which are out. Today seemed vital because New York City was to pick its machines today. But a city panel this afternoon put off that decision until Friday.
O’Connor’s order is the latest wrinkle in legal wrangling that has surrounded the effort. New York is the only state that hasn’t yet complied with a federal law that it replace its voting machines in the wake of the 2001 debacle in presidential voting in Florida in 2000, largely because of a partisan split on the state Board of Elections.
>Counties are supposed to decide which machines to buy by Friday.
“Counties right now don’t know what to do because of these legal maneuvers,’’ said Barbara Bartoletti of the state League of Women Voters.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
