Sentences with phrase «vote tampering»

The central issue is that Virginia's touchscreen equipment, known as direct - recording electronic (DRE) voting machines, did not produce a paper trail — one of the most robust if old - fashioned safeguards against potential vote tampering.

Paul Steinhauser — the name is Doug Hoffman and you failed to mention the vote may be contested because of the vote tampering (or computer malfunctions) that took place.

Suspicion of electronic vote tampering is widespread, and those suspicions are reasonable, if perhaps not immediately validated by recorded incidents (that I am aware of).

For many, electronic vote tampering would appear a new threat on our democracy — and another twist in an already challenging election cycle.

When the two diverge, he argues that this is evidence of vote tampering.

In the mid-1980s, Sessions was criticized over the prosecution of three civil rights activists on charges of vote tampering in Perry County, Alabama.

Not exact matches

Stein has argued, without evidence, that irregularities in the votes in all three states suggest that there could have been tampering with the vote, perhaps through a well - coordinated, highly complex cyberattack.

The political turmoil in Venezuela looks poised to deepen, after the company that managed the election technology used in Sunday's constituent - assembly election said Wednesday that vote results had been tampered with.

This reduces the chances of any vote, which were validated on the blockchain network in real time, from being tampered with.

Hopefully tomorrow's national vote will go smoothly, with little speculation of electronic tampering or a high - profile cyber strike — but that doesn't mean we should not begin preparing for what is likely inevitable.

The same benefits we see with digital coins apply to these votes: their authenticity and legitimacy is validated by many people's computers, and the record book of votes can never be tampered with.

If you rent out only to people who will vote how you want them to, you'd be violating several federal laws regarding equal opportunity housing, and voter tampering or fraud.

In theory you could use a cryptographically secure one - way hashing algorithm to guarantee anonymity here, but that still leaves the door open to tampering - e.g. by hacking voting devices so it confirms you've voted on X while actually casting a vote on Y.

With electronic votes, any amount of tampering could theoretically happen to the votes.

You can use techs like blockchain to reduce the risk of tampering with individual bulletins, but even that offers little protection if bulletins get tampered with wholesale - e.g. on the fly as they are cast, or by overwriting all votes before the counting.

The damage you can do to a single ballot, a single ballot box, a single court house and so on require an increasing number of coconspirators without exceptions, with numbers and efforts in proportion to the tampered votes.

Many Ohioans are opting for the absentee ballots to avoid electronic voting machines, which are notoriously vulnerable to tampering.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Rep. Elise Stefanik has voted in favor of releasing a classified intelligence memo that purportedly contains evidence of improper surveillance usage by the FBI and Department of Justice in the probe into Russian election tampering.

In a lopsided victory, the incumbent Sampson — who is accused of with stealing more than $ 400,000 in home foreclosure sales and tampering with an FBI investigation, among other charges — garnered 3,000 votes more than his closest challenger to take 54.2 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary for the 19th Senate district.

Mr Odinga also ran against Mr Kenyatta in the 2013 vote and unsuccessfully challenged the results in court with allegations of vote - tampering.

Clinton and Stein acted in response to reports that Russian hackers might have tampered with electronic voting machines, while Trump appears to have been relying on bulletins from discredited conspiracy theory site Infowars.

The counts are forgery in the second degree, criminal possession of forged instruments in the second degree, falsifying business records in the first degree, offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, tampering with public records in the first degree, and two separate counts of illegal voting.

No one has to tamper with individual votes for the total to change.

Recording votes on a blockchain requires complex mathematics that makes tampering with them after the fact practically impossible.

However, it is unlikely that large - scale digital tampering required to swing a vote would go unnoticed, despite the antiquated systems involved.

(1) A person commits jury - tampering if, with intent to influence a juror's vote, opinion, decision, or other action in a case, he attempts directly or indirectly to communicate with a juror other than as a part of the proceedings in the trial of the case.

If someone alleges they've tampered with the electoral system, there is no «normal» or «before» state that can be checked to prove or disprove the claim (though the system could count numbers of votes cast from particular machines — but probably not who they were cast for, if the number of total votes is right).

The cards will be tamper - resistant, relieving citizens from the worries about identity theft or fraud when voting, providing medical records or using any government - related service.

Because blockchain is a distributed ledger of transactions, military mobile votes become immutable and tamper - proof once recorded.

This reduces the chances of any vote, which were validated on the blockchain network in real time, from being tampered with.

We haven't had the best of luck when it comes to electronic voting systems, but as distributed ledgers are extremely difficult to tamper with, it may be possible to come up with a system which removes miscounts and corruption.

They've created a secure digital ballot box that voters can use to cast their votes right from their phone or computer — no manipulation, recording errors, or tampering, guaranteed.

The secure digital ballot box uses blockchain technology to ensure that data is distributed and tamper - proof, and it allows voting from mobile devices and PCs.