(10/22/10) NEW YORK (AP) - New York's rocky transition from mechanical voting machines to paper ballots read by optical scanners just got a little more difficult.
A legal scholar at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice says he's spotted an error in the instructions sent out with the city's sample ballot.
The instructions tell voters to fill in the oval above the name of the candidate they want to vote for.
But the Center's senior counsel, Lawrence Norden, said Thursday those instructions are wrong. He says voters should be filling in the oval below the candidate's name - not above it.
That could confuse some New Yorkers.
The city Board of Election did not return several calls requesting comment.
The old levered voting machines were replaced this year after more than four decades.
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