On December 15, the New York State Board of Elections held a meeting, and discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot project to use “Expressvote” vote-counting machines.
New York and New Jersey currently have the nation’s worst ballot format. New York, and almost all counties in New Jersey, design their general election ballots so the major party nominees are easy to find, but many minor party and independent candidates are put in far corners of the ballot, so they aren’t even visible for someone who doesn’t look carefully. But if New York switched to Expressvote, that problem would be solved.
This link shows what the ballot looks like in jurisdictions that use Expressvote. Thanks to Mike Drucker for this news.
Just make certain hand count election law required statistical sample to confirm machine optical scanned process.