The Nassau County Board of Elections held a demonstration of the new optical scan electronic voting machines at the Henry Waldinger Library on July 13. The new equipment will be used for the first time in the 2010 September primary and November general elections, as part of a federal mandate. more

As they do every year, approximately 1,400 middle school and elementary students joined their parents at the ballot box on May 18, weighing in on a variety of questions. more

June 14 will be Animal Mania Day in District 13 schools. That is the theme day students chose when they went to the polls last week. more

Polls will be open at South Side High School on May 18 as residents of the Rockville Centre Union Free school district have the opportunity to vote on school and library budgets and elect trustees for those boards. In this at large election, three district residents are vying for two open seats on the Board of Education. The candidate who receives the second highest vote tally will be sworn in immediately to fill a vacant term that runs through June 30, 2011. The candidate who receives the highest number of votes will be sworn in on July 1, 2010 for a full three-year term as a trustee. The following are answers to questions that the Herald submitted to the three candidates. more

They same day the will be asked to vote on the school budget on May 18, Long Beach residents will also cast a ballot for the proposed 2010-11 library budget, which represents a $55,730, or 1.8 … more

Nassau County is preparing to bid farewell to its tried-and-true lever voting machines and to replace them with electronic ones, most likely by the November election. more

What more can we do? To the Editor: We wish to thank Joe Kellard and the Herald for the informative front-page article “Another heroin death” in the Jan. 28-Feb. 3 issue. We have been … more

North Valley Stream residents will vote on March 4 to determine which local library will serve them. more

By a margin of 59 to 41 percent, residents of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District defeated a proposed $31.8 million bond in a Dec. 17 vote. The measure would have financed renovations to South Side High School. more

On the board Special District Meeting, Dec. 17, for the public to vote on the $31.8 million bond issue referendum for renovations to South Side High School. Ballots can be cast in the school’s … more