General News: Voting Machine Ready for Election Day
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| Ray Torraca set up the voting machine |
March 19, 2007
The chief custodian of voting machines for Orange County was in the village hall Monday evening, making sure that everything was ready for election day.
Ray Torraca set up the voting machine, then checked the levers and counters of the machine, which he said was little changed since it was first patented in 1889.
“The accuracy of these machines is very high,” Torraca said, noting that there would be no hanging chads to worry about. “The only thing that can go wrong is mechanical in the back of the machine.”
The machine is handicap accessible and there is an area on the top, above the levers, where voters can write in a candidate’s name.
Torraca said he will be on call if there is a problem on Tuesday, election day.
At the village hall, election inspector Jeanne Maroney will be on duty for the vote, as she has been for the past forty years, with her husband Andy Maroney. The two will be joined by inspectors Margaret Flint and Margaret McGuiness.
Andy Maroney said that it is not easy to find people to serve as election inspectors because they have to start at 5:30 a.m. in the general election. The village election is easier, Maroney noted, with the polls open from 12:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The are 2,100 registered voters in the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, although in the last two election about 500 people voted. The voting machine, Jeanne Maroney said, only registers up to 1,000 votes.
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