Sentences with phrase «many voting systems»

As the Financial Times (whose writer also testified) reported, a diamond - registration blockchain exec noted that the system was «garbage in, garbage out,» and a researcher designing blockchain - based voting systems said the technology would only be useful for recording final results, rather than validating individual votes.

Inc.'s 2015 March Madness tournament operates in a phased voting system.

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

Doing so will significantly diminish the likelihood of electoral fraud, which is a huge issue despite the prevalence of electronic voting systems.

And now MI Developments, a real estate company carved out of Magna's assets to support horse - track acquisitions in 2003, has struck a deal with Stronach to move to a one - share - one - vote system.

Originally designing electronic voting systems, the company soon moved on to designing and manufacturing scoreboards and other equipment for arenas.

The report, from 2012, did not claim that those people voted illegally in an election, as it was written as an argument for modernizing the US voting system.

«Oddly, our wildly disorganized, motley federated voting system protects us somewhat against direct cyber-interference affecting the November 2016 outcome,» he said.

Alex Halderman, a computer science professor who has studied voting machine security, told Politico that he believes there will be consequences if the U.S. voting system isn't fixed.

The report also gave details about a two - year - old warning from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a bipartisan organization, that described the state of America's aging voting system as an «impending crisis.»

In late August, Yahoo broke news that foreign hackers had breached the state Board of Elections websites in Illinois and Arizona, which the FBI's cyber division followed up with an alert to election officials across the nation to increase voting system security.

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.

«But there is a true threat to our democracy if we allow confidence in our voting systems to be diminished.»

Scotland uses a proportional voting system to elect 129 members (MSPs) to its parliament.

And the fourth was to breach US voting systems in as many as 39 states leading up to the election, in an effort to steal registration data that officials say could be used to target and manipulate voters in future elections.

The report was bolstered by a leaked NSA document published by The Intercept earlier this month detailing how hackers connected to Russian military intelligence had attempted to breach US voting systems days before the election.

And, the Government will propose changes to Canada's elections laws to uphold the integrity of our voting system.

As long as stock exchanges allow dual shareholder classes, Google, Facebook and other Internet titans will probably never adopt a one - share, one - vote system.

Though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change the country's voting system before 2019, his government didn't totally walk away from electoral reform.

The incubator already has several startups enrolled in the program, including an American bitcoin exchange, called Cryptos, an Uber like service but with Bitcoin, called LiveryCab, a lightweight Bitcoin ATM machine, called Digital Asset Vending Enterprises (D.A.V.E) and a non-corruptible voting system based on the block chain, called Blockchain Apparatus.

[6] Virtually all charters granted by the Maryland legislature between 1784 and 1818 used a weighted voting system.

Speaking to 1,000 people at the sold out conference, Broadbent called on delegates to seize this «once - in - a-generation opportunity for progressive change, an opportunity to ensure we have a fair voting system in which every voter counts, in which every citizen has a real opportunity to elect a candidate according to his or her values.

OTTAWA — The Broadbent Institute cares deeply about renewing Canada's democracy and we welcome the launch of a special parliamentary committee to study new voting systems.

OTTAWA — Broadbent Institute founder Ed Broadbent on Friday kicked off the country's flagship progressive policy conference with a call for progressives to make sure the next election is held under a proportional voting system.

The landmark survey commissioned by the Broadbent Institute is the first study of its kind and size to measure Canadians» attitudes about voting system design and preference for electoral reform.

Florida will sign one - year contracts with all 67 county supervisors of elections to improve network monitoring of county voting systems, not the statewide database that keeps track of 13 million Florida voters.

State election officials are baffled by a Bloomberg report alleging that Russian hackers compromised the voting systems in 39 states, adding that cybersecurity firms were engaging in scare tactics to win state and local contracts to protect election systems.

There's an enormous potential for abuse within the voting system, and the right of issuance is looking an awful lot like a license to print money.

Ms. Monsef was widely criticized for the way she handled the government's plans to change the voting system.

This fall British Columbians will decide whether to change BC's provincial voting system so that the number of votes more closely matches the number of elected representatives.

«We want to improve and modernize our voting system so everyone's vote counts.

The voting system for individuals within the network to «propose» and then vote on an proposal for action for which the network can allocate resources to e.g. for the development or marketing of the currency.

The reference to elections is an interesting point, I do believe this is in reference to blockchain based voting systems, perhaps this is a subtle reference to the recent scandal with regards to Russian intervention within the Donald Trump campaign etc, who knows?

Like Reddit, the site has a comment and voting system that allows your post to rise to the top of each day's list.

First of all, you apparently still believe in the voting system... that's worrisome.

What would have been a better voting system, a simple yea or nay on everything?

The drafters of the voting system for its election tried to ensure that no party would ever have an overall majority, though it was assumed that unionist parties would be dominant.

I especially like the double - vote system, as it encourages unity.

By using this method, OAD eliminates a dilution of results experienced in other voting systems that are based on surveys, while at the same time offering everyone an opportunity to participate.

The HR in Hospitality Conference voting system will then rapidly calculate the two winning topics and an announcement will be made prior to the start of the Executive Summit.

However for these players, the set - up of the voting system may go against them with voting ballots being handed out in December.

This shows that the current voting system is not only inaccurate but is nothing more than a popularity contest.

Perception SEC killed satellite camps: «We were clear in our perspective but we had two votes out of 15 in a weighted» voting system.

He worked out long ago that in a one - country - one - vote system a handful of votes from the smallest nations anywhere in the world cancel out the votes of the European footballing powerhouses.

Our unique, hassle - free voting system works well here.

In short, we shouldn't worry too much about whether or not a voting system is perfect; picking one that's pretty good would be a vast improvement over the current situation in most elections

The main reasons it wasn't adopted more widely yet is because it isn't as intuitive to understand as most other systems, counting the votes takes longer than with single - vote systems and of course because of people who reject it for purely political reasons.

As to the last part of your question, using a weak voting system is definitely a real threat to fair voting, but Arrow's theorem doesn't just boil down to «democracy is impossible».

But unfortunately every voting system is based on one axiom: That the voters are smart enough to form an objective opinion on each candidate.

That parties in the US get less seats than percentage of voters may also just be because the voting system is a majority voting system not a proportional one, similar to the UK but additionally with partisan district partitioning which allows gerrymandering.