Sure, it’s 2009, well into the new century, but as us New Yorkers head to the polls today, we’re still using the same clunky, decades old lever voting machines we always have. That’s because an effort ...

After eighty years, the curtained lever-pull voting machines so familiar to New Yorkers are being replaced by new devices that scan paper ballots on which voters will make their selections by filling ...

Wonder how long that ham-and-Swiss has been sitting around in the office vending machine? For something a little fresher, slip $5 into an Art*o*mat, and you'll get an original 2-inch-by-3-inch piece ...

In a city with a booming new-technology industry, New Yorkers remain stubbornly loyal to one technological relic: the lever-voting machine. New Yorkers embraced the tried-and-true workhorses during ...

I remember the first time I voted, over 40 years ago. Voting was a big deal in my family. We lived in Silver Lake, a Providence neighborhood where politics was always exciting. My mother had always ...