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The new optical-scanner voting machines have led to some grumbling among Nassau County poll workers, one of whom contacted us this week to complain that primary day workers were promised they'd be paid within two weeks, then four weeks - and that they're still waiting.

Democratic Elections Commissioner William Biamonte, who has his own complaints about the new voting devices, says the pay delay resulted because Nassau had to hire several hundred more poll workers than usual to assist voters in using the new scanners. Those 5,500 workers in turn needed more training than had been required with the old machines.

A REALITY SHOW?Former madam Kristin Davis tried to pitch her candidacy for governor as a reality-television show to several producers without success, her political consultant Roger Stone said. The show, tentatively titled "Madam Governor," was described to production firms last summer as a fast-turnaround style documentary, with each weekly show recapping the week's political wrangling and Davis' campaigning. "Politics sells, sex sells, an attractive woman candidate sells," Stone said. "It would have been very entertaining." But, he said, the series was thwarted by bad timing.

Davis did not get on the ballot as the Anti-Prohibition Party candidate until September - making it too late for a production company to put a show together, Stone said.