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Lever Voting Machines Are Back!

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg emerges from a voting booth after casting his ballot November 3, 2009 at an elementary school in New York in bid to win a third term as mayor of New York City against Democratic opponent William C.Thompson, Jr.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg emerges from a voting booth after casting his ballot November 3, 2009 at an elementary school in New York in bid to win a third term as mayor of New York City against Democratic opponent William C.Thompson, Jr. Photo: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images

Governor Cuomo called the brief return of lever-operated voting booths a “poor solution” to New York City’s voting problems, but he signed the bill anyway, because whatever.