Sentences with phrase «screen voting machines»

In November, Kevin Shelley, California's secretary of state, issued a directive that all touch - screen voting machines in his state must be equipped with printers by 2006.

The county, which has used mechanical lever machines for generations, has chosen optical scanners over electronic touch - screen voting machines, which have been the subject of controversy because they keep no physical record of votes.

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.

While the incoming Democratic House majority is sure to use the 13th District as an example of the need for a paper trail for touch - screen voting machines, it seems unlikely that the party will get involved in the legal fight between Jennings and Buchanan.

Not exact matches

New York State used a different voting process than Florida, but the law found that lever machines were prone to several glitches and problems and required them, as well as all paper - punch systems like Florida's, to be replaced with either optical scanners or touch - screen machines.

Touch - screen machines in Sarasota, Florida, recorded an 18,000 - vote undercount in a congressional race decided by fewer than 400 votes.

Although hardly a ringing endorsement for e-voting technology, the GAO's findings contradicted those of researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Los Angeles, who, after conducting a separate study (released in September) found that the «exceptionally high... undervote rate» in the Florida's 13th District race «was almost certainly caused by» a poorly designed and confusing electronic ballot displayed on the voting machine's touch screen.