Sentences with phrase «into election machines»

Because of this, attackers could theoretically intercept unofficial results as they're transmitted on election night — or, worse, use the modem connections to reach back into election machines at either end and install malware or alter election software and official results.

Not exact matches

States ensure that voting machines are not connected to the Internet, and there are numerous checks and balances as well as extensive oversight at multiple levels built into our election process.

When people think about a cyber attack on election day they are most likely to think of hacking into voting machines and changing the results of an election.

Firstly, encourage the creation of a very serious review into what went wrong for the party at the last election so that mistakes in the message and machine can be dealt with; secondly, encourage the party to create a policy platform ruthlessly focused on generating popularity across the country to raise the party's standing in the polls; and thirdly, secure enough political support that they can ideally walk into Downing Street uncontested.

It's hard to believe that the makers of optical scanners (a) didn't anticipate the possibility of double voting and (b) couldn't write a simple software patch (even now before the election) to reject forms with double votes when the voter feeds it into the machine.

Voter fraud in New York is not considered common or widespread, and New York officials at the state Board of Elections say those concerns don't take into consideration the machines voters use to cast their ballot.

The NYC Board of Elections is pushing a $ 6.8 million plan to turn old voter machines into voter information kiosks, but the chair of the City Council committee overseeing the agency dismissed the scheme as too costly.

And once the general election result was declared void (November 5th), the by - election machine which ensured victory in Crewe & Nantwich and Norwich North should have been cranked into action.

Meeting him yesterday afternoon he told me that there were less than 1,000 days until the next general election (969 actually if its 7th May 2015) and the party machine needed to start getting into battle mode.

A Faso spokesman says that according to the state Board of Elections, voters in Columbia County were instructed to place their ballots into a separate slot on the scanning machine for provisional ballots and that replacement ballots were to be at all polling places no later than 4 p.m.

But in a seat of this sort in 2013, the greatest election - winning machine in all of 20th - century Europe was beaten into third place by Ukip.

Livingstone says some conspiracy theorists have floated the theory that the rightwing Labour party machine delayed the disciplinary hearing into his case until this month because they wanted it to damage the party at the start of the local election campaign.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

«That is why I have stated continually that as the National Organizer of the NPP, I will make sure that the NPP will be turned into an election winning machine, which will win every presidential election to the benefit of Ghanaians», he said.

«David Cameron could inherit a dysfunctional Whitehall machine unable to deliver his programme if he wins the general election, a damning report into the state of the civil service under Gordon Brown concludes.

Landslide elections, time machines, and Drake's infamous victory dances (we think)-- this has been a marathon week for peering into the future.

Part One: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures», the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology provides a detailed analysis of the risks that voting machines and the digital age have introduced into our democratic process which have the potential to impact the integrity of election results.