Sentences with phrase «of election machines»

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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.

Vote - by - mail is one way many of the concerns with voting machines or election day cyber strikes could be largely contained.

Voting machines have long been under fire for their potential vulnerabilities, but they represent just one tiny aspect of the cyber threat matrix surrounding election day.

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.

Forty - four of the 57 county boards of elections outside NYC reported voting machine problems on primary day.

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.

California did try voting machines, and they are still an option (every precinct has a voting machine, and you can request to use it, but paper ballots are the default), and it works somewhat similarly, in that the election officers give voters a card that activates the voting machine, and the type of ballot is recorded on that card.

The 2008 local elections and the 2009 European elections followed in due course; by 2010 the machine was well - oiled enough that in the final week before polling day it was a case of getting rid of surplus leaflets rather than rushing to target specific areas.

«Finally, the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mamoud is hereby commended for achieving a significant improvement in the overall conduct of the election especially as it affects the effective use of the Card - Reader machine,» the report reads.»

«While my heart beckons me forward, my head tells me my continued presence on the Conservative line would simply lead to the election of Andrew Cuomo, and the continuation of an entrenched political machine,» Lazio said.

Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and pro-Obama voices in their own communities.

@JeffLambert We still use (at least in many jurisdictions) actually people watching the boxes / machines as part of the security procedures for elections, so having the polls open for several days would exacerbate the problem of finding enough people to staff the security measures.

Ademusire stated that the Commission would adopt simultaneous accreditation and voting system for the election with the use of newly developed card reader machines.

As news coverage switched to the turnout battle in the last weeks of the elections, many stories discussed the Republicans» voter - mobilization machine and the Democrats» efforts to match it.

Part Four of a six - part series Attracting the largest army of supporters ever seen in a modern American election is one thing, but even more impressive is that the Obama campaign managed to put them to work — as online recruiters, as cash machines, but also as organizers, block - walkers and...

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.

«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, 2010election 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, 2010election 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, 2010Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said the most recent presidential election should serve as a «wake - up call» about the importance of voting and access to polling machines.

With 100 percent of machine votes counted, Anna Throne - Holst, the former Southampton Town supervisor, maintained a razor - thin lead over David Calone in Tuesday's Democratic primary election to represent New York's First Congressional District, and the race will come down to absentee ballots.

In 2013, NPR's Allan Greenblatt listed a few: It's effectively a one - party state, with the Democrats so dominant that there is no political competition and machine politics set the agenda; the elections are expensive, making candidates reliant on donors; many key decisions, such as the shape of the state budget, are made in backroom deals between a few power players; the local media is so focused on national events that it ignores what's happening in the state (especially upstate); and there's no anti-corruption movement to challenge the existing culture.

Nor do I understand how an alliance of Labour parliamentarians with the Liberal Democrats (that well - known election - winning machine), as Ewing suggests, will deliver victory.

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.

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.

A win by Gonzalez would help re-establish the WFP in Albany and also solidify its standing in NYC as a vehicle for reform against the well - established so - called Democratic «machines» in the outer boroughs — particularly Brooklyn and, in the case of the 2009 NYC Council elections, in which the WFP teamed up with HTC and 1199 against party - backed candidates, Queens.

The Ukip election machine was today found wanting when former leader Nigel Farage spoke live from the campaign trail in Sleaford and North Hykeham — and party operatives managed to misspell the name of the constituency.

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.»

«Over the past five years, the city has provided the Board of Elections with more than $ 77 million to make the transition to the new machines, and that doesn't include the $ 85 million in federal funds used to purchase the new machines.»

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

U.S. intelligence agencies said in a report in January that the television station, which broadcasts on cable in the United States, is «Russia's state - run propaganda machine» and that it contributed to the Kremlin's campaign to interfere with last year's presidential election in favor of Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers headed to the polls for a chance to select Mayor Michael Bloomberg's successor and cast ballots in a host of other elections — even as broken voting machines across the city stalled their efforts.

Although revisiting the voting machine memory sticks resulted in a slight expansion of Mr. Storobin's 120 - vote lead on Election Night last Tuesday to 143, reconciling the differing reports this afternoon gave Mr. Fidler an additional 25 votes on his margin.

The slot machine probes were one of several investigations that led Paterson to quit his election bid a week after launching it.

Character does matter in this race... but it is not my character that is at issue in this election; it is Mr. Fidler's record of highly questionable, unethical behavior as a career politician, a City Councilman and a power broker whose the product of the corrupt Brooklyn Democrat political machine.

State Sen. Frank Padavan (R - Bellerose) filed a motion in Queens Civil Courthouse Wednesday to impound voting machines and ballots in his district after his Democratic challenger Tony Avella ended his 38 - year reign in Albany by a margin of about 3,000 votes, according to city Board of Elections results.

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.

It includes creating an election support center to provide technical expertise to county boards of elections, giving boards access to threat mitigation services and hardware, providing vulnerability assessment to make sure voting machines are protected, and requiring counties to report data breaches to the state.

I ask him if it's true what they say about the brutal efficiency of the SNP by - election machine, which is sold as some insanely robust targeting mechanism.

Senator Gustavo Rivera (D - Bronx) introduced an amendment for public financing of elections to a bill authorizing lever machines for run - off elections.

«The bias against smaller parties is one concern arising from this study of our election system in 2011 another is the power handed to party machines in deciding who goes where on the list and so in many cases who gets a seat.

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.

The executive director of the elections board insists the primary, marred by voting machine chaos, went OK.

Since the announcement of the special election, the deck was stacked against any possible candidate outside the local political machine, one which Silver still controls.

According to Valerie Vasquez - Rivera, a spokesperson for the Board of Elections, the Board of Elections will follow normal recanvasing procedures where a bipartisan team opens up polling machines to get an official ballot count and then counts and validates all paper ballots (such as absentee ballots).

Lhota was one of a host of voters who had trouble with the old lever machines — which were resurrected for fear the new touch - screen voting machines would be too unstable for the primary — as problems popped up across the city, election monitors said.

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.

The Board of Elections will begin the process of manual counting on Friday, going from machine to machine, and will start counting paper ballots on Monday, they said.

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.

Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said Bishop's team should wait for the Board of Elections to complete its 3 percent audit of voting machines and count absentee ballots before calling for a hand recount.

From now on, the electronic memory sticks from inside of voting machines will be used to calculate preliminary, election - night totals, just like every other county in the state.

Welcome to this new section of ConservativeHome - FutureConservatism.com - where I'll be setting out the kind of electoral manifesto and machine that can help give David Cameron a majority at the next election.