Sentences with phrase «voting machines as»

Keith Wright has been working on getting new and accessible voting machines as Chair of the Assembly's Election Law Committee, but we disagree with his support for the «full face» ballot.

«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.

The most important aspect of my preliminaries is that we are likely dealing with Ben Graham's voting machine as the causative factor for the high valuations.

Not exact matches

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

States ensure that voting machines are not connected to the Internet, and there are numerous checks and balances as well as extensive oversight at multiple levels built into our election process.

As Ben Graham famously said, «In the short term markets are a voting machine, and in the long term they are a weighing machine.»

As Ben Graham said, «In the short - run, the market is a voting machine — reflecting a voter - registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability — but in the long - run, the market is a weighing machine.»

But in the short term, as Graham also noted, it is a voting machine — that is, it is highly subject to the whims and moods of investors.

As the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham, said, «In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.»

The GOP spin machine is trying to present this woman as the beginning of a trend of blacks voting GOP; that nonsense.

«Due to serious concerns over the rollout of new electronic voting machines in several counties within the district, the local financial burden of holding a special election so close to the regular election cycle, as well as the possible disenfranchisement of overseas military voters who would not be able to participate, I will call for a Special Election to be held on November 2, 2010.»

Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins said the most recent presidential election should serve as a «wake - up call» about the importance of voting and access to polling machines.

As for his vote, he said, «That's between me and the machine.»

At this age and time, the NDP insists «our voters register is not only compromised but also outmoded when there has been a global switch from this anachronism to electronic voting machines (EVMs) with the only requirement of a single definitive voter identity», citing India which has since 1998 been switching to electronic voters machine and perfected it in its 2014 general elections with what they described as «highly unprecedented efficiency.»

NEW YORK CITY — New Yorkers headed to the polls for a chance to select Mayor Michael Bloomberg's successor and cast ballots in a host of other elections — even as broken voting machines across the city stalled their efforts.

Shown: A family watches as the father slips his ballot into the voting machine in Brooklyn.

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.

As a hypothetical example, what if it's discovered that every Sequoia voting machine in PA reported exactly 725 votes for Trump and 400 for Clinton, regardless of how many votes were actually cast?

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.

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.

Amy Durbin of Congers directed Borelli asking about the FBI investigation that was impending on Savino about voting machines and also about his awareness of Savinos's position as the Chairman of the Bronx GOP.

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

As the midterm congressional primaries heat up amid fears of Russian hacking, 1 in 5 Americans will be casting their ballots on machines that do not produce a paper record of their votes.

The answers should be different as voting machines guarantee some basic details that online voting systems do not guarantee, as an example you can say that every voter at a machine has been authentified as being eligible to vote, something you can not be sure of with an online voting system.

At the Democratic County Committee State Senate nomination convention on March 10, 2017, his opponents accused him and his supporter Keith Wright of using «voter suppression» tactics to ensure his victory as the nominated candidate (re: New York Observer, March 10, 2017, «Harlem Candidates Accuse Democratic Machine of Rigging Contest for State Senate Seat»), which would in theory ensure his victory in the May 23rd 2017 NYS Senate election in Central Harlem's heavily Democratic voting district.

This necessitates that members sign their names to their ballots in the convention — and several anti-Wright sources worried to the Observer that this could influence their vote, as a number either hold jobs at the city Board of Elections that the county machine has influence over, or have relatives who do.

Tuesday's vote saw scattered technical glitches as voters used the new ballot - scanning machines, and some voters also complained about the miniscule 6 - point type on the paper 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.

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.

Well, NOPOLITICS, beside the fact that your reference at the end is too cryptic to understand what you're talking about, (though it seems you're somehow attempting to disparage Hein's 55 percent to 42 percent victory as being an unconvincing win) the first part about the machines taking more time for «closing voting» doesn't seem at all correct as it's computerized.

A policy regulating how to spend the city's share of Seneca Niagara Casino slot machine profits may come to a vote as soon as April 11, said City Council Chairman Andrew P. Touma.

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.

At his party last night, Diaz suggested his opponents in the gay community might try to use the State's new voting system — a scanning machine that debuted yesterday, to a fair amount of complications — as a reason to dispute his victory.

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.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

But the experience wasn't as bad as the Sept. 14 primary, the debut of the new electronic voting machines.

Democrats will ask the state's highest court to reverse two lower - court rulings and order a lengthy hand recount of some 85,000 paper ballots that were fed into new optical scanning voting machines in the contest between incumbent Nassau Sen. Craig Johnson, a Democrat, and Mineola Mayor Jack Martins, the GOP challenger, who has been officially certified as having won by 451 votes.

As of 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, 1,385 New Yorkers had called 311 to complain about ballots, voting machines, poll sites or poll workers, the mayor's office said.

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.

«At the federal level, I will recommend it as well because with the card reader and the electronic voting machine, the era of rigging elections is almost over and I think that is when people will have confidence in the process and will come out en masse to vote for their leaders.

Ohio could spend as much as $ 161 million for electronic voting machines — money that is probably badly needed for other programs.

Whereas certain technology — such as pacemakers and other medical devices — are heavily regulated and must adhere to strict design and construction standards, voting machines are still mostly unregulated.

This is becoming more difficult as increasingly sophisticated software — including that which runs electronic voting machines — continues to grow to encyclopedic portions.

In a follow - up study, the researchers were able to examine the word associations of a group of 324 participants and, by using machine - learning algorithms, predict their political leanings and what party they belonged to, as well as which candidate they were likely to vote for in the presidential elections.

Any bar with a wall lined with pinball machines has my vote as a top - notch place to spend an evening.

As Benjamin Graham famously said, «In the short - term the market is a voting machine, but in the long - term it is a weighing machine.»

That's not to say that the markets couldn't continue to advance smartly, because as legendary value investor Benjamin Graham observed, the market is a voting machine in the short term.

As Benjamin Graham famously said, «In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.»

A convenient way of contextualizing the Brexit referendum reaction is by understanding that markets act as a great big voting machine on what the world of tomorrow should be worth today.

Over what period does the market turn from being a voting machine into a weighing machine, as Ben Graham so eloquently put it?