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In an effort to lure young voters to the polls, Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz recently announced Thursday that her agency’s Web site will offer a video showing how to use the state’s recently acquired optical scan voting machines. The 90-second video can be downloaded onto personal recording devices, including iPods, and will also be available on YouTube.
Bysiewicz acknowledged that most young people who know how to use an iPod would likely understand how to use an optical scan machine. But it still makes sense to provide instructions on the Internet, where young people get much of their information, she said.
She pointed to national efforts to remind young people to vote through text messages on their cell phones apart placing ads in newspapers, on cable TV and radio.
“We’re trying to get the information out to all the age groups using the media that they’re most likely to use on a regular basis,” she said.
For years, Connecticut used lever voting machines. The new system requires users to fill out ballots by hand and feed them into scanning machines.
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