Sentences with phrase «optical scan machines»

Michigan does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents vote on optical scan machines, a type of machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen machines used in some other states.

Meanwhile, Faso's campaign also released a statement saying that the ballots incorrectly featuring three candidates could not be counted by the optical scanning machine that was programmed with two candidates on the ballot.

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If the price of proprietary machine parts is high, cash poor precincts might be more liable to delay necessary maintenance, leaving a dried - up slippery roller in an optical scan box.

Problems included a lack of ramps and wheelchair - accessible doorways at polling sites and a dearth of accessible ballot marking devices (BMDs), which offer an alternative way to mark a paper ballot to then scan into the new optical scanning voting machines.

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

Democrats will ask the state's highest court to reverse two lower - court rulings and order a lengthy hand recount of some 85,000 paper ballots that were fed into new optical scanning voting machines in the contest between incumbent Nassau Sen. Craig Johnson, a Democrat, and Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, the GOP challenger, who has been officially certified as having won by 451 votes.

The Board of Elections will cause the optical scan voting machines to alert voters when they have double - voted.

Diebold's Mark Radke points out that during the recall election for the governor of California last year, fewer than 1 percent of the voters that used Diebold machines submitted blank ballots — a rate well below that for optical - scan cards (2.7 percent) and punch cards (6.3 percent).

In states such as Maryland, where Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley has proposed spending $ 6.8 million to buy new optical - scan machines to improve the accuracy of that state's elections, the technology will not be ready to go until 2010.