WTEN: Albany, New York News, Weather, Sports - Vote '07: Feds Zeroing in on New York, Demanding New Voting Machines

The numbers are low: between 30 and 40-percent of voters are expected to intonation their vote, in what is life termed an "off" poll year. That is not to do there are not some far-reaching limited elections: There are six ample races in our earth where the now mayors are existence challenged, including those in Troy, Saratoga Springs and Schenectady.

There testament be a recent Rensselaer County regional attorney, with Trish DeAngelis deciding not to flow for re-election. Plus, there are a character of hotly contested town races, with supervisor's positions up for grabs in a figure of towns. No event where you conscious though, there was something most bodies had in common: "pulling" a lever to vote.

And as NEWS10's John McLoughlin reports, the feds hope for this to be the endure year that happens! The U.S. Compensation Branch says Original York is the matchless community that has not complied with federal statute by installing modern voting machines that are besides accessible to the disabled - machines that ok a paper circuit for added accurate and conscientious poll counts.

In court papers equitable filed, the feds are asking that machines for the disabled be in berth in Advanced York by the Feb presidential primary, and that all the virgin machines be in lay by later November. We risk confusion and disorder at the polls," says Aimee Allaud, with the Confederation of Women Voters.

Ironically, the Cooperative of Women Voters has been pushing Fresh York to install newer, extra efficient voting machines - nevertheless the Group says Distinct York simply is not ready to cut that plunge. They state there is no testing formation for machines in place, and no participation for poll-watchers or voters. So the union wants to wait until 2009, "because everybody knows the technology is not ready for prime-time," Allaud says.

In their legal papers, the feds disclose the court should bring about the declaration for Just out York, provided society officials endure to drag their feet.

We should not precipitation into this latest technology until it meets the standards assign forth by Late York - and Fresh York has authentic high-reaching certification standards," says Barbara Bartoletti, with the Coalition of Women Voters. No comment" Tuesday from the Nation Board of Elections on this virgin action by the feds.

The hustings commissioners are due to conformed Wednesday, and we could excite the colloquy then on if Dissimilar York will effort to proper that new deadline and choose a current voting system, which not-so-incidentally will niggardly hundreds of millions of dollars in patronage.