From the Smithsonian: Vote: The Machinery of Democracy. I wish I had had a chance to vote in person using Connecticut’s lever-operation voting machines, but I was always away at college. My parents recently moved from Connecticut to Washington and my mother asked me if there was a party lever she could use here. I had to explain that not only was there not a party lever, there weren’t any levers at all. Actually, Connecticut has gotten rid of the party lever, and is planning to replace all levers with electronic voting machines in 2005 with money from the Help America Vote Act.

By the way, I don’t need to tell all you American citizens to vote, do I? (thanks Matt!)