Sentences with phrase «by voting machine»

The executive director of the elections board insists the primary, marred by voting machine chaos, went OK.

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.

TIF files, scanned by the voting machines used in the election.

Not exact matches

The recounts were requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who says they're necessary to ensure that voting machines weren't hacked, even though there's no evidence that they were.

Experts recommend states should replace outdated voting machines and implement tighter cybersecurity standards to thwart possible attempts by hackers to infiltrate US voter systems and manipulate vote counts.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

Vote - by - mail is one way many of the concerns with voting machines or election day cyber strikes could be largely contained.

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More recently, The Anger Machine has been in a similar fulminating swivet over the suggestion by some observers of the recent British «Brexit» vote that, um, a certain lack of tolerance may have played a role in the Leave side's campaign.

In January, Amarillo's school board voted to fill some of its soda machines with water and other non-soda drinks, in response to concerns raised by local dentists.

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.

This is partly due to the newfangled voting machines recently adopted by the city and state.

A second terminal has long been opposed by Weinberg, and Sweeney is fishing for North Jersey votes since he is a creature of the South Jersey machine which is headed by South Jersey Democratic Political Boss George Norcross.

The news, broken yesterday afternoon by James Forsyth, that Stephen Parkinson, Theresa May's senior Special Adviser, is off to work for the Vote Leave campaign is a major boost the anti-EU machine.

And he argued that by dismantling a vote - winning Labour machine, the current leadership were doing the Tories» job for them.

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.

Freeman — who in the 2007 Democratic primary defeated incumbent Albany County Legislator Lucille McKnight on the machine count only to lose by four votes once absentees were tallied — this time held his lead over party - backed candidate Victor Cain for Albany's 2nd Ward Common Council seat.

The machine votes for the 14th District Council race have been re-counted, all the paper ballots (absentee and affidavit) have been tallied and Fernando Cabrera is still in the lead over Maria Baez by about 69 votes, said Democratic County Chairman Carl Heastie in a phone interview.

The other data stick remains with the voting machine scanner and is retrieved by the BOE when the VMs are returned to the borough BOE for the recanvass.

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

From now on, memory drives from inside of voting machines will simply be transported by police directly to station houses, where the data will be uploaded onto secure computers and transmitted to the board and press.

Gonzalez had been under fire since the city's Sept. 14 primary, which was marred by polling place problems and issues relating to the roll - out of the city's new 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.

As of the machine count at 9:00, Aidan is down by 288 votes.

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 voteBy 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 voteby about 400 votes.

The Buffalo News reports the new vote total was based on data from memory sticks from each voting machine that were examined by the Board of Elections Friday afternoon.

Following an outcry by Queens and city legislators about widespread voting problems during Primary Day, the city Board of Elections said it is taking extra precautions to educate the public about the new voting machines before the Nov. 2 election.

She trails Mangan by 187 votes, but Suffolk Democratic Elections Commissioner Anita Katz said four machines and 153 absentee ballots are yet to be counted.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.

They didn't hack into the voting machines to change the vote tallies and votes are still cast by Americans.

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.

The Manhattan machine is a pale, pale, pale shadow of what it was in the Tammany era, but the boss losing his home borough is never a pretty sight, even if it is by fewer than 300 votes.

School districts, villages and other special election districts can continue to use lever - style voting machines through 2014, under a law signed today by Cuomo.

Mangelli was ahead by 68 votes before officials counted the 1,780 absentee ballots and 51 emergency ballots, used when the machines fail.

Tkaczyk, who led by about 135 votes when machine votes were counted, but then fell behind as absentee and affidavit ballots were counted, eventually won the battle of those ballots by taking about 80 percent of the last 91 ballots those judges allowed to be included.

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.

We were up by 96 votes from the machines.»

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.

Democrats will ask the state's highest court to reverse two lower - court rulings and order a lengthy hand recount of some 85,000 paper ballots that were fed into new optical scanning voting machines in the contest between incumbent Nassau Sen. Craig Johnson, a Democrat, and Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, the GOP challenger, who has been officially certified as having won by 451 votes.

«I think the voting public increasingly believes that they will not see competitive elections by and large, and it's a reflection of a system that is designed to be an incumbency protection machine,» said Horner.

to my fellow New Yorker - why would a district thoroughly dominated by Republicans for generations suddenly rig the voting machines to elect a Democrat?

In November, Kevin Shelley, California's secretary of state, issued a directive that all touch - screen voting machines in his state must be equipped with printers by 2006.

Aviel Rubin, a coauthor of the Johns Hopkins report, says that he would prefer voting by mail to voting on a Diebold machine — and there is no guarantee that other voting machines are any better.

In the recent election, however, the race for a seat in Florida's House of Representatives was decided by only 12 votes, and the machines reported 134 blank ballots.

By plugging a PDA into the jack, he could have overwritten the machine's vote tally.

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.

Touch - screen machines in Sarasota, Florida, recorded an 18,000 - vote undercount in a congressional race decided by fewer than 400 votes.