Sentences with phrase «from voting machines»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Vote aggregators (the machines that collect votes from all over a state) are unencrypted and Wi - Fi - enabled, which means hackers can intercept the votes and delete or manipulate the results.

The Los Angeles school system has voted to remove soda from its machines; Philadelphia officials plan a similar move.

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.

The letter cited reports of voters purged from voting lists, closed polling stations, and broken machines, among other issues.

Local political parties get all of their funds from donations, although the mechanics of primary elections (voting machines, space rental, ballot counting staff) are often publicly funded.

That's one of the reasons voting machines vary so much from place to place in America.

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.»

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Although the new voting machines have reported some discrepancies from the Election Day tally, there does not seem to be much of a partisan lean to the errors, something Mr. Fidler would have needed to overcome his deficit.

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.

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The commissioners also discussed the possibility Tuesday of calling on Albany to change state rules to allow the city to equip its voting machines with wireless capabilities, so that results could be transmitted directly from machines to the board without needing to transport memory sticks or ballots.

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.

Many people believed that Kennedy benefited from vote fraud, especially in Texas, where his running mate Lyndon B. Johnson was Senator, and Illinois, home of Mayor Richard Daley's powerful Chicago political machine.

In hopes of testing whether the output from proprietary voting machine hardware and software was accurate, the Stein campaign has paid the state of Wisconsin a $ 3.5 million dollar recount filing fee, -LRB-...

High school students in the Syracuse City School District participated in a mock election for president, Senate and House of Representatives using official ballots and voting machines from the Onondaga County Board of Elections.

John O'Hara, the longtime opponent of Brooklyn District Attorney Joe Hynes and the Brooklyn Democratic machine, and the only person since Susan B. Anthony convicted of registering to vote, said that his attorney got a phone call today about a possible pardon from Peter Kiernan, the counsel for Governor David Paterson.

The specials require their own apparatus — from inspectors to voting machines — which means voters have to remember to sign in and vote twice.

Despite objections from neighboring Oneida County, senators voted 57 to 1 to share with Madison County a percentage of the slot machine profits the state receives from the casino in Chittenango and from two Oneida Indian gas stations.

His court's audacity to return stolen governorships from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vote - heisting machine, to which the normally feckless Goodluck Jonathan presidency took terrible exception, and for which an innocent and dutiful man must pay with his career.

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.

Hoffman — whose insurgent campaign helped drive Republican Dede Scozzafava from the race — had rescinded his concession last week amid new vote counts that showed a narrowing vote gap between himself and Owens, and allegations that software problems in some voting machines and other vote counting issues could have affected the outcome of the race.

Someone did, but not before some other people switched strategy from earlier absentee voting to actual machine balloting.

The board is expected to work through the weekend to tally the final vote from the machines in Tuesday's primary.

In Westchester, voting machines in the 40th District will be impounded, per a petition from Democrat Justin Wagner.

Meanwhile, judges ordered voting machines impounded in the 18th district, once the polls close, heeding a petition from the Maloney campaign.

We were up by 96 votes from the machines.»

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.

Meanwhile ubiquitous Dan Torres — among the many hats he wears is deputy New Paltz town supervisor, assistant to the county comptroller and pointman for Teachout — tells me that unofficial returns gleaned from town voting machines election night showed that Teachout took 93 percent of the New Paltz vote.

«At the 1906 state convention, for instance, party delegates were quite willing to trade, sell, or exchange their voting power in return for various forms of remuneration from the party machine.

Their work will be to arrest any issue that might arise from the electronic voting machines or any other problems,» she said.

On this Tuesday evening, the leadership of the Ramapo Democratic political machine, which Ms. Stavisky refuses to condemn or attempt to disrupt, could very well attempt to prevent a resolution in support of a veto - empowered monitor in East Ramapo from going before the full legislature for a vote.

The Albany County Board of Elections, which ran the original Albany High referendum in November, provided voting machines and wound up fielding calls from concerned voters all day.

With just a little inside knowledge of a machine, a rogue programmer could create a Trojan horse program that looks like useful code but surreptitiously changes votes from one candidate to another.

Over what period does the market turn from being a voting machine into a weighing machine, as Ben Graham so eloquently put it?

I don't mind being wrong, and we all are from time to time... but in the short term the market is just a voting machine... (to borrow a Buffett).

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

If someone alleges they've tampered with the electoral system, there is no «normal» or «before» state that can be checked to prove or disprove the claim (though the system could count numbers of votes cast from particular machines — but probably not who they were cast for, if the number of total votes is right).

Bucholz recalls a 2004 American case he was involved in in which internal e-mails from the archive of an electronic voting machine company were leaked during an election year and posted online.

Voting machine manufacturer ES&S is facing new questions from a prominent US lawmaker regarding the security of its voting systems.

«Virginia's move to decertify all of its paperless voting machines is a critical step toward securing its elections and acknowledging that post-2016, we're living in a brave new world where election interference from hostile foreign attackers is no longer theoretical,» Barbara Simons, the president of the election security nonprofit Verified Voting, said in a statement.