Suffolk casts ballots on paper one final time
Voters in Suffolk County cast ballots on Tuesday for the final time by filling out paper ballots that are fed into a ballot scanning device called the Dominion ImageCast Precinct.
Starting next year, the county’s Board of Elections will transition to new touchscreen voting machines called ExpressVote XL made by Election Systems & Software. Suffolk lawmakers approved funding earlier this year for the BOE to acquire new machines. The BOE signed a sales order agreement with the company for $31.7 million in August.
The sales order agreement lists an estimated delivery date of Jan. 1 and a first election of June for a possible primary.
The board of elections tested the machines in March during a special election in Southampton Town.
Joe Werkmeister joined Newsday in 2022 and covers Suffolk County government and politics. He is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and previously worked as the editor of two North Fork community newspapers.
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