Rhode Island opens new exhibit on the history of voting.

Providence (AP) — The State Archives has opened a new exhibit on the history of voting.

The exhibit is called “Voting in Rhode Island: 380 years of ‘I voted.’” It runs through Nov. 23 at the State Archives in Providence.

It includes 19th- and 20th-century ballots and ballot readers and original 17th-century documents about election results and the earliest legislation providing for proxy and absentee voting.

Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea says that when people understand how the mechanics of voting and the administration of elections have evolved, they’ll understand the importance of voting in the future.

New York (AP) — Two dancers were fired from the New York City Ballet on Saturday amid accusations that they were part of a ring of male dancers who inappropriately shared nude photos and videos of women.

The ballet company said principal dancers Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catarazo, as well as a third dancer, Chase Finlay, who resigned last month, “engaged in inappropriate communications, that while personal, off-hours and off-site, had violated the norms of conduct that NYCB expects from its employees.”

The firings came after a woman who had dated Finley, Alexandra Waterbury, said in a lawsuit this month that Finlay had sent explicit videos and photos of her taken without her knowledge to other men including dancers with the company.

Waterbury charged in her lawsuit against City Ballet and Finlay that the company tolerated a “fraternity-like atmosphere” where male dancers understood that “they could degrade, demean, mistreat and abuse, assault and batter women without consequence.”

The lawsuit said a male donor wrote to Finlay suggesting that the men should tie ballerinas up “and abuse them like farm animals,” to which Finlay replied, “or like the sluts they are.”

While denying that they had condoned inappropriate behavior, company officials began an investigation after they were made aware of Waterbury’s charges and were planning to fire Finlay when he resigned, the company said.