On November 3, 2009, New York voters in 15 counties voted for the first time with optical-scan ballots instead of mechanical voting machines. The entire state will have abandoned mechanical voting machines by 2010. Some voters who used the new system seemed either satisfied with it, or were neutral. Others said they preferred the old machines. But this news story in the Jamestown, New York Post-Journal seems to suggest that no voter was particularly intense, either positively or negatively, about the change.