A new law was signed by Governor Cuomo Thursday to modernize and speed up the process of reporting election results across the state. Cuomo signed the bill which will allow county election boards to replace hand-written tallies of vote results with computerized, portable memory devices. The devices, which connect to voting machines, will first be available in New York City’s general elections in November, including the mayoral race. Before the new system, local poll workers took tabulated results produced by electronic voting machines for each race by election district and added the votes. From there, the information was sent to county board offices, where it was manually entered into official databases for release. Cuomo says the traditional process created both errors and delays.
