Sentences with phrase «new electronic voting machines»

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

«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.»

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

Not exact matches

Along those lines, New York's creaky voting machine system is the worst except for the «modern» electronic vote scanners the state picked a few years ago.

At some polling sites, local elected officials reported that all of the old - school levered voting machines — which were revived this year because of concerns with new electronic scanning machines — were down, forcing voters to cast affidavit ballots instead.

Election officials decided to resort to the older lever voting machines during Tuesday's primaries because the newer electronic machines used in 2012 confused voters, sparked long lines and caused problems during the tallying process.

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

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.

I then asked the assembled partners to identify, by virtue of electronic voting machines (secret vote), the relevant importance to their firm of being able to establish new areas of practice in advance of competitors.

The Election Security Act would aid states in purchasing new voting machines that incorporate paper ballots — a feature widely viewed as the best defense against electronic warfare.