Sentences with phrase «electronic voting machines»

The reason: The new electronic voting machines, the results of which have not yet been subject to significant legal tests.

The new electronic voting machines are replacing an 80 - year - old lever system to comply with new federal requirements.

Some of her best known decisions include the resolution of the Ralph Nader for President nomination papers, the implementation of electronic voting machines in every county in Pennsylvania, and the finding that limousine drivers are independent contractors.

Clinton and Stein acted in response to reports that Russian hackers might have tampered with electronic voting machines, while Trump appears to have been relying on bulletins from discredited conspiracy theory site Infowars.

Until the demand for electronic voting machines swelled in the wake of the 2000 presidential election, the concerns of computer scientists were largely hypothetical.

According to a 2015 study by the Brennan Center for Justice, 43 states will use electronic voting machines in November's election that are at least 10 years old.

The new optical scan electronic voting machines arrived in Westchester County.

That could involve an adoption of centralised results software first, followed by electronic voting machines at polling stations, before voting becomes possible over the internet.

Many Ohioans are opting for the absentee ballots to avoid electronic voting machines, which are notoriously vulnerable to tampering.

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.

A proposed solution to these problems was the installation of modern electronic voting machines.

He said that the commission had made public demonstration of the use of newly introduced electronic voting machines in all political wards across the state.

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.

Many are likely hoping to avoid distrusted electronic voting machines, as well as the long, racially - biased lines that tainted the 2004 election.

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.

«Multiple lines of evidence have demonstrated that paperless electronic voting machines are fundamentally insecure, leaving open the possibility of interference and errors.

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.

Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems — with the machines and the wider electoral process — are rectified

With just nine months to go until Election Day, electronic voting machines remain as iffy and controversial as ever.

This is becoming more difficult as increasingly sophisticated software — including that which runs electronic voting machines — continues to grow to encyclopedic portions.

May 13, 2018 • Most electronic voting machines don't create a paper trail but voting officials in Austin are trying to marry the convenience of electronic machines with a paper trail that can be audited.

«Due to serious concerns over the rollout of new electronic voting machines in several counties within the district, the local financial burden of holding a special election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»

In many states, their «recount» process consists of feeding the same ballots through the same machine readers, or, with electronic voting machines, looking at the tapes and verifying totals.

He however noted that the Kaduna State Government has decided to use electronic voting machines for its Local Government elections, and was free to train their personnel on how to use the machines.

Ohio could spend as much as $ 161 million for electronic voting machines — money that is probably badly needed for other programs.

To replace them, the State has now moved to optical scan electronic voting machines.

Think of electronic voting machines.

Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Andrew Cuomo voted without incident on the new electronic voting machines in Mount Kisco earlier today.

WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor recently sounded the alarm over a judge's decision not to grant the party a pre-Election Day injunction to address the so - called «double - vote» problem with the new electronic voting machines, calling that a «hudge problem» for the minor party.

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

In the interim, the board will collect the 266 electronic voting machines in the district and check for irregularities.

As the DN's Glenn Blain reported this morning, one of those solicitations referenced the Florida recount of 2000, which is what spurred HAVA and brought us the new electronic voting machines.

In California, the League of Women Voters has protested against a new, computerised statewide election registry that the group says is improperly rejecting registered voters, while county clerks in several Indiana jurisdictions complained that the electronic ballots programmed by the vendors of their electronic voting machines had been delivered late, were incorrect and poorly proofread.

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.

In Kaduna, we enacted our own electoral law that made provision for the electronic voting machine and card reader, everything was totally legitimized and passed by our State House of Assembly and I think every state can do the same,» he said.

«We are relieved that come November, we will be one step closer to using these electronic voting machines as they were actually intended,» he said.

«At federal level, I will recommend it as well because with the card reader and the electronic voting machine, the era of rigging elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out enmass to vote for their leaders.

@Trilarion It depends if you are comparing to paper - based offline voting, or to US - style «electronic voting machines».

ES&S, the company that made NYC's controversial new electronic voting machines, claims it has a solution to the city's looming election crisis: Pay the company more money.

During the interaction, the citizens asked questions on the efficiency of the card reader, security of ad - hoc personnel, training, electronic voting machines, printing of the Permanent Voter Cards and the Commission's readiness for the 2019 General elections.

The city had used the classic lever voting machines in the September primary, but on Tuesday reverted to electronic voting machines that scanned paper ballots.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said Blackwell should step aside because his office is responsible for the rules that govern county election boards that had scattered problems last Tuesday, including poll workers who did not know how to turn on new electronic voting machines.

According to the National Democratic Party (NDP) «at this age and time, our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded, when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machine with the only requirement of a single definite voter...

The issue, according to Altschuler's camp, appeared tied to the use of the new electronic voting machines, which are being used throughout the state for the first time and which have been criticized for problems both in the September primary and in the general election.

But the experience wasn't as bad as the Sept. 14 primary, the debut of the new electronic voting machines.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said the day's «widespread delays and confusion with the electronic voting machines has damaged the public's trust in our Democracy» and «likely disenfranchised» thousands of voters.

But the issues did not appear as severe or widespread as Primary Day in September, when Mayor Bloomberg called the city's new electronic voting machines a «royal screw - up.»