Some voters have reported problems at polls
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- November
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  The League of Women Voters has been receiving scattered reports from around the state about polling problems, according to Aimee Allaud, election specialist for the group. A number of calls came from New York City early in the morning. Complaints were that machines were broken, there were long lines, and some polls had no election inspectors. Â
  In Oneida County, the voting machines didn’t work and voters had to use paper ballots.
  In Albany, there was a report that some State University of New York students who believe they were eligible to vote were not allowed to, and they were not provided with the option of voting by affidavit ballot, according to Allaud.
  Others have reported being registered but not being in the poll books.
  This is the last year that New York is supposed to use decades-old mechanical-lever voting machines. There is supposed to be at least one device per polling place that is designed so people with disabilities can vote independently.
(With reporting by Heather Senison of Gannett News Service.)
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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. 
