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Election boards order magnifying glasses for voters

Rick Brand

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Print on the new paper ballots is so small that Long Island election officials are buying magnifying glasses for voters' use. Suffolk's election board spent $8,450 for 6,000 of the aids - enough for each booth where voters mark the ballots. "We got a lot of complaints from seniors that they were hard to read," on primary day, Wayne Rogers, the GOP nominee for elections commissioner, said at his...

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