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The voting machine levers are officially history.

After years of delays and fierce lobbying, the New York City Board of Elections on Tuesday selected Elections Systems and Software, an Omaha company, to provide new electronic voting machines in time for the September primary.

Voters will now be required to fill out a paper ballot with ovals, similar to an SAT exam, before feeding it into a faxlike scanner. Then, voters are required to answer questions on a computer touch screen to ensure that the selections they made are the ones they intended. The paper ballots will then be retained as backup hard copies, in the event of any disputes or recounts.

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