Sentences with phrase «voting machine»

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

Some real - life examples include reducing the number of polling stations and voting machines in some areas.

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.

However, what most reports have overlooked is the fact that the effort to reduce the drop - off was effective mostly because of the new voting machines.

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

Computer scientists had been sounding alarms about the rampant security flaws in voting machines for years, and the manufacturers hadn't responded.

The placement of ballot questions has become an issue in recent years after the state ended the practice of using voting machines to cast ballots.

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.

She notes about half of those voters will have never used the new optical scanning voting machines that were installed two years ago.

Please don't start lengthy discussion about voting machine security, constitutional amendments or corruption in the democratic party.

«It was through the looking glass,» he said of the trouble with the new computerized voting machines.

It has the added advantages of being simple to explain, and easy to implement with existing voting machines.

The old Soviet area voting machines will be replaced with their «just - as - faulty» 21st century counterparts.

I should point out on the conspiracy voting machine post.

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

There is ongoing criticism of voting machines, due to the ease of manipulating the outcome of a vote that is counted digitally.

Another 14 states will use voting machines that have been in use for 15 years or longer.

Jon Stainbrook, the Lucas County Republican chairman, said purging the rolls of inactive voters saves taxpayer money on voting machines and ballots that aren't necessary, but that voters can easily avert being removed from the rolls.

However, now that the DOJ no longer has to preclear New York's voting changes, the City Board of Elections has already successfully pushed legislation to bring back New York's old lever voting machines for a potential mayoral primary run - off, despite objections from good government groups and disability activists.

As we reported earlier this week, the city BOE is considering changing its procedures so that it can use electronic data from voting machines when polls close to tally unofficial vote counts rather than using the current process that involves using scissors, tape, and calculators and requires BOE staffers to count votes by hand late into the night.

Bucholz recalls a 2004 American case he was involved in in which internal e-mails from the archive of an electronic voting machine company were leaked during an election year and posted online.

«We are relieved that come November, we will be one step closer to using these electronic voting machines as they were actually intended,» he said.

May 13, 2018 • Most electronic voting machines don't create a paper trail but voting officials in Austin are trying to marry the convenience of electronic machines with a paper trail that can be audited.

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

After voters and many city lawmakers, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, railed against operations during Primary Day, when voting machines broke down or were delivered hours late to their polling site, the city Board of Elections said it took extra precautions to ensure a smooth general election.

That could involve an adoption of centralised results software first, followed by electronic voting machines at polling stations, before voting becomes possible over the internet.

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.

A Board of Elections survey says a majority of New Yorkers thought the new voting machines worked well.

The head of the NYC Board of Elections accused Mayor Bloomberg and the media of exacerbating voting machine problems on primary day.

Washington (CNN)- The hotly contested Democratic mayoral primary in the nation's capital already has claims malfunctioning voting machines and other irregularities could have affected voting results.

Following an outcry by Queens and city legislators about widespread voting problems during Primary Day, the city Board of Elections said it is taking extra precautions to educate the public about the new voting machines before the Nov. 2 election.

With a voter turnout far above the usual for a primary election, Kennedy came out of the unofficial voting machine count 271 votes ahead of County Legislature Chair Betty Jean Grant.

Bhuva's team cites the case of the 2003 local election in Schaerbeek, Belgium, in which an SEU in an electronic voting machine gave one candidate 4,096 additional votes.

Barbara Simons is a computer scientist and teacher; she argues that, because of the stability problems of digital voting machines and online voting, paper ballots are required to allow an audit of voting results.

Young, the chairwoman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, was speaking, seemingly in general, about voting machine audits in tight legislative races.

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.

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.

By now, there's little doubt the state legislature will vote itself a substantial raise shortly after voting machines cool down on Nov. 6.

Germany has banned the use of voting machines which record the votes electronically only.

She so strongly opposes the use of touchscreen voting machines with or without paper trails that she would opt for the continued use of lever machines or paper only, in violation of HAVA mandates for persons with disabilities to be able to cast a secret and independent ballot.

School districts, villages and other special election districts can continue to use lever - style voting machines through 2014, under a law signed today by Cuomo.

There is a simple solution to the problem of rigged voting machines.

Mechanical voting machines required voters to find a slot near the top of the machine, and manipulate a small Read more»

According to this story, local election officials in New York are finding that many more write - in votes are being cast, now that the state has finally stopped using mechanical voting machines.

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

Alex Halderman, a computer science professor who has studied voting machine security, told Politico that he believes there will be consequences if the U.S. voting system isn't fixed.

A 2013 Buzzfeed article noted numerous times the show was spot on when it came to worldwide events, which included faulty voting machines changing peoples» votes, Siegfried & Roy's tiger turning on the duo, yard work becoming a video game, the Apple Watch and more.

Results of the elections will take longer to tabulate this year because the new voting machines make the process «more intricate,» City Board of Elections spokeswoman Valerie Vazquez said.

With just nine months to go until Election Day, electronic voting machines remain as iffy and controversial as ever.