Sentences with phrase «after voting machines»

By now, there's little doubt the state legislature will vote itself a substantial raise shortly after voting machines cool down on Nov. 6.

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After we were done voting (which was only a few minutes, thanks to the electronic machines), all the kids got «I Voted» stickers and we took pictures outside of our voting location.

NYC Councilman Eric Ulrich has seized on this morning's NY Post report of a top Queens GOP official's suspension by the NYC Board of Elections after being caught soliciting a «finder's fee» from a voting machine contractor to continue his on - again / off - again war with the borough's Republican chairman, Phil Ragusa.

In a statement released this afternoon, Ulrich said he was «appalled, but not shocked» by the Post story that Graves was suspended from his $ 66,392 - a-year job at the board after being caught on tape soliciting a $ 25,000 «finder's fee» from Denver - based Dominion Voting Systems, which was competing for a a $ 65 million electronic voting machine contract in 2009.

After the recount of roughly 5,100 voting machines and so - called «emergency» paper ballots used by those who could for whatever reason not cast their vote in the usual way, de Blasio's tally stands at 40.88, which is up from 40.33 percent via the unofficial results on primary night.

State Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) filed a motion in Queens Civil Courthouse Wednesday to impound voting machines and ballots in his district after his Democratic challenger Tony Avella ended his 38 - year reign in Albany by a margin of about 3,000 votes, according to city Board of Elections results.

After a re-canvass of voting machines Monday, Golby's 17 - vote lead held fast, prompting Scalzo later in the day to all but concede the race to Golby, a community activist.

Losquadro, who held a 40 - vote lead after unofficial election night returns, saw his advantage jump to 890 votes after Board of Elections officials double - checked tallies from the electronic voting machines.

The primary results came after a day marred by problems with the old lever voting machines and other issues including last - minute changes to polling sites and voters» names not appearing on official rolls.

By Friday, after the memory cards in each of the voting machines had been double - checked, he learned that he trailed Republican challenger Randy Altschuler of St. James by about 400 votes.

The Erie County Board of Elections has spent the week counting absentee and affidavit ballots after a machine count showed Kennedy with a lead of less than 100 votes.

a buoyant Rangel declared in the ballroom at the Uptown Grand, about 40 minutes after the polls closed in New York and long before the problem - plagued electronic voting machines were downloaded for tallies.

But roughly 1,000 votes of his lead came from the fragments of the Bronx grafted onto the seat after redistricting in 2012, even though Wright had the backing of that borough's Democratic Party machine.

The phase - out of lever - style voting machines was mandated by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which was spearheaded by the Bush administration in an attempt to streamline voting after the ballot - counting fracas in Florida following the 2000 presidential election.

At least 10 counties will not have voting machines in place until after July 1st

Elections officials in the five - county district began a recanvass of voting machines on Tuesday, which yielded no changes after a review in Albany and Schenectady counties.

«If you have a machine collecting and recording votes with an electronic ballot box there's no way to go back after the fact and see if the machine made a mistake, whether through malice or simple software error,» says Stanford University computer science professor David Dill and founder of Verified Voting Foundation, a nonpartisan election watchdog.

After months of research, project members concluded that lever machines, punch cards, and Internet voting schemes all have flaws.

Although hardly a ringing endorsement for e-voting technology, the GAO's findings contradicted those of researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Los Angeles, who, after conducting a separate study (released in September) found that the «exceptionally high... undervote rate» in the Florida's 13th District race «was almost certainly caused by» a poorly designed and confusing electronic ballot displayed on the voting machine's touch screen.