Not exact matches
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.
In addition to the
electronic copies of the ballots, Turner and Boyd are requesting ballots that went unscanned because they were rejected
by the
voting machines.
Speaking during his citizens» engagement tour of some local government areas in the state, Prof. Ezeon explained that the said
voting machines were designed
by the Nigeria Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) and demonstrated to the National Assembly members for adoption for elections, adding that the federal government was yet to adopt the
electronic voting procedure for elections.
That system has spawned complaints of patronage that has led to the BOE's failures over the years, including the inability to upgrade to
electronic voting machines required
by the 2002 Help America
Vote Act
by the deadline years later.
Direct - recording
electronic voting machines in particular are easy to hack; Princeton University security expert Ed Felten proved it
by accessing a Diebold
machine's memory card with a hotel minibar key he bought online.
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.
I then asked the assembled partners to identify,
by virtue of
electronic voting machines (secret
vote), the relevant importance to their firm of being able to establish new areas of practice in advance of competitors.