Sentences with phrase «voting machine problems»

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

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

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Another problem is the physical security of voting machines; most are stored in unguarded warehouses, Graff says.

A proposed solution to these problems was the installation of modern electronic voting machines.

WFP Executive Director Dan Cantor recently sounded the alarm over a judge's decision not to grant the party a pre-Election Day injunction to address the so - called «double - vote» problem with the new electronic voting machines, calling that a «hudge problem» for the minor party.

Padavan, as you'll recall, initially filed a court motion last week to impound all ballots and voting machines in the 11th SD, citing problems with the new equipment.

Padavan filed a court motion last week to impound all ballots and voting machines in the 11th SD, citing problems with the new equipment, even though the unofficial results showed him badly trailing Avella, 25,864 votes to 22,781 votes.

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.

Election officials decided to resort to the older lever voting machines during Tuesday's primaries because the newer electronic machines used in 2012 confused voters, sparked long lines and caused problems during the tallying process.

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.

Gonzalez had been under fire since the city's Sept. 14 primary, which was marred by polling place problems and issues relating to the roll - out of the city's new voting machines.

«The fact of the matter is the audit of the voting machines has shown no problems and to date no one has questioned the integrity of the machines,» Ryan said.

The primary results came after a day marred by problems with the old lever voting machines and other issues including last - minute changes to polling sites and voters» names not appearing on official rolls.

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.

a buoyant Rangel declared in the ballroom at the Uptown Grand, about 40 minutes after the polls closed in New York and long before the problem - plagued electronic voting machines were downloaded for tallies.

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.

Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said Blackwell should step aside because his office is responsible for the rules that govern county election boards that had scattered problems last Tuesday, including poll workers who did not know how to turn on new electronic voting machines.

As New York City's contentious primary campaign drew to a close Tuesday, some voters — including one leading mayoral candidate — encountered problems with the city's decades - old voting machines.

The issue, according to Altschuler's camp, appeared tied to the use of the new electronic voting machines, which are being used throughout the state for the first time and which have been criticized for problems both in the September primary and in the general election.

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.

Their work will be to arrest any issue that might arise from the electronic voting machines or any other problems,» she said.

Electronic voting machines promise to make elections more accurate than ever before, but only if certain problems — with the machines and the wider electoral process — are rectified

Voting reform initiatives in the US usually focus on problems with voting machines and on the electoral college...

No reasonable copyright holder could have believed that the portions of the email archive discussing possible technical problems with Diebold's voting machines were protected by copyright

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.