Following is a list of electronic voting machines in New York state. In 2010 New York State was the last state to switch to electronic voting under the

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. In doing so, New York abandoned its Shoup Lever Machines which had been used since 1962 and were originally built by American Voting Machines Company in

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. New York had a long established history with the lever machines going back to the patent for the lever machine by Alfred J. Gillespie and Standard Voting Machine Company of

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, in the late 1890s. The device drew a privacy curtain around the voter and simultaneously unlocked the machine's levers for voting. In 1898, Gillespie and Jacob Myers formed the American Voting Machines Company. New York had a long history of attempting to replace the machines including

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who urged they be replaced in 1985.

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ImageCast is used in 52 of the state's 62 counties. The contracts were originally awarded to

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but Dominion acquired the company in 2010. However, the machines in some of the state's largest cities such as

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and

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are the DS200 Ballot Scanner by Election Systems & Software. Dominion had sued the New York City Board of Elections to stop the award of the $70 million contract for to ES&S saying that the contract was not the lowest bidder. New York City ES&S's offering were easier to set up. Courts did not issue a stay in the case noting that doing so would jeopardize the implementation of the vote in time for the election. Both companies had problems in the implementation in the first year with ES&S being criticized after it was revealed that poll workers were scanning the ballots with the ballot side visible to the public in the primary. Officials said they fixed the problem by training ballot workers. Dominion suffered a problem in the 1st Congressional District in the general election after the machines initially indicated that

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had won by 3,500 votes but by the next night officials had declared his opponent

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the victor by 400 votes.invalid reference

Electronic voting machines by county

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