Sentences with phrase «voting machine count»

Mr. Espada acknowledged last night that he had lost in the voting machine count.

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.

Not exact matches

Experts recommend states should replace outdated voting machines and implement tighter cybersecurity standards to thwart possible attempts by hackers to infiltrate US voter systems and manipulate vote counts.

Also, there are a lot of machine - reading issues where many votes are not counted at all that should have been («undercounts») where examination of the ballot can show clear intent, or, if there was a machine tabulation error, that machine tabulation error would not affect a human being.

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.

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.

Freeman — who in the 2007 Democratic primary defeated incumbent Albany County Legislator Lucille McKnight on the machine count only to lose by four votes once absentees were tallied — this time held his lead over party - backed candidate Victor Cain for Albany's 2nd Ward Common Council seat.

Just Friday, Thompsons's resolve seemed steady, hoping a re-canvass of voting machines would result in a runoff between he and de Blasio, saying he wanted to wait for the official count, but Monday Thompson called for party unity.

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.

As of the machine count at 9:00, Aidan is down by 288 votes.

The Erie County Board of Elections has spent the week counting absentee and affidavit ballots after a machine count showed Kennedy with a lead of less than 100 votes.

She trails Mangan by 187 votes, but Suffolk Democratic Elections Commissioner Anita Katz said four machines and 153 absentee ballots are yet to be counted.

Republicans mulled court action on the grounds that party lawyers were prevented from observing the counting of some absentee ballots, voting machines erroneously recorded votes from Lamb, and voters were confused by some information from the state election Web site.

On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.

The move, she believes, would ease pressure on verification and vote counting machines on the Election Day.

Audits to examine the veracity of the machine vote count are continuing in Erie and Niagara counties.

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

On Election Day, the voting machine at the Otisco Fire Department even spit out his ballot twice before he put it in a lock box to be counted later.

Today's finished count only reflects the review of the voting machine memory sticks, and next week, the Board of Elections will still recount the paper ballots and the remaining absentee and provisional ballots.

This is the exact same total as the Board of Elections had last night, and the remaining machines counted today all contained zero votes.

At 9 a.m., there will be a hearing in Saratoga County Court at which a judge will set the ground rules for the recanvassing of the machine vote and counting of absentee ballot votes in the 43rd SD primary race between Sen. Roy McDonald and County Clerk Kathy Marchione.

Hoffman — whose insurgent campaign helped drive Republican Dede Scozzafava from the race — had rescinded his concession last week amid new vote counts that showed a narrowing vote gap between himself and Owens, and allegations that software problems in some voting machines and other vote counting issues could have affected the outcome of the race.

Mangelli was ahead by 68 votes before officials counted the 1,780 absentee ballots and 51 emergency ballots, used when the machines fail.

City Board of Elections Valerie Vasquez said an audit still needs to occur of the voting machines and absentee ballots must be counted, which could take weeks.

Tkaczyk, who led by about 135 votes when machine votes were counted, but then fell behind as absentee and affidavit ballots were counted, eventually won the battle of those ballots by taking about 80 percent of the last 91 ballots those judges allowed to be included.

Another New York House race was suddenly back in play amid ongoing vote - counting today, as a recanvass of the ballot machines erased a 3,400 - vote deficit for Republican Randy Altschuler in New York's 1st District and vaulted him nearly 400 ballots over Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop.

It costs millions of dollars to keep the polls open, maintain the machines, and make sure every vote is counted.

Since absentee ballot counts typically mirror machine results, it is very likely Sara McGinty's unofficial 273 - vote win over Sharon Graff in the Democratic primary for county surrogate's court judge will survive the 658 ballots the elections board was scheduled to canvas on Wednesday.

Why not count those ballots — in strict secrecy — before the machine vote and add the results election night?

The phase - out of lever - style voting machines was mandated by the 2002 Help America Vote Act, which was spearheaded by the Bush administration in an attempt to streamline voting after the ballot - counting fracas in Florida following the 2000 presidential election.

With optical scanners, voters are given a paper ballot, which they mark in a booth and then insert in a central machine outside the booth that counts the vote.

He had misunderstood the order of candidates» listings and, when village clerk Sylvia Lazzari Pirillo read vote totals for each of the lines on the voting machine, he mistook Mr. Murray's count for his.

And so, you know, somebody turned off a machine in Silicon Valley and they couldn't count the votes in Australia.

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).