It s different. It s a lot easier. Everything is right there. Just press the one you want and move on to the next. His aunt, Audrey McCullough, said she sees an advantage in writing in a candidate in the electronic voting booth.
Voters can write in a candidate s name by pressing the letters to spell out the name.
Not everyone was looking forward to high-tech voting. He said he preferred the mechanical levers. Besides voters, poll workers caught on quickly to electronic voting and their duties, said James R. Minor, national sales manager for UniLect, the Dublin, Calif., maker of the electronic voting systems. With 101 precincts in Mercer County, some with multiple machines, instituting electronic voting could be expensive. But both Bennington and county Commissioner Brian W. Shipley said the county could pay for the machines over four or five years with the money they could save on printing ballots and moving and storing old machines.