Earlier in the day, the city that is vying to become the East Coast rival to Silicon Valley gave a dinosaur's display of voter technology when it struggled to make 50-year-old lever machines work at polling stations.
One example: In February Massachusetts-based Voter Activation Network, which provides voter technology for Democrats, recently launched an iPhone app to make voter canvassing easier.
They are alarming descriptions of existing abuses, whether in voter technology, airline profiling, identity requirements, stalking, national-security databases and tracking programs, or data mining.
In March, the space agency issued a call for the public to choose their favorite of three designs; 63% of voters chose "Technology".
Just as Twitter and Facebook allowed politicians of both parties to speak directly to voters, this technology could allow 2016 campaigns to more easily go around the political press.
Iain McNicol, Labour's general secretary, has invested heavily in voter-targeting technology.
The main issue with the paper ballots will be their unfamiliarity to voters, not the technology itself.
From the brilliant Mr. Henson, Mr. Rivkin said, he learned powerful lessons about communicating, and his background in children's entertainment "prepared me well to engage Europe's young generation of first-time voters" through digital technology and the sort of "smart power" initiatives advocated by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Campaign advertising is being done with mobile ad technologies on voters' mobile devices Mobile TV technology is enabling political ads and announcements on TV Mobile content publishing is enhancing political issues coverage on wireless devices.
The Clinton campaign also hopes voters in this technology-centered, trade-dependent state remember how the economy expanded under former President Bill Clinton's administration.
