Sentences with phrase «voting machines before»

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.

Precinct official Bill Partlow inspected a voting machine before polls open Tuesday in Pineville, North Carolina.

Not exact matches

It's hard to believe that the makers of optical scanners (a) didn't anticipate the possibility of double voting and (b) couldn't write a simple software patch (even now before the election) to reject forms with double votes when the voter feeds it into the machine.

Two years earlier, the State Senate had voted the businessman onto the government - controlled organization's board of directors, only eight months before a massive scandal broke out over the contract for video slot machines at the NYRA - run Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.

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.

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.

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.

But it was unclear if the increased margin would change the stance his opponent had taken, which was to wait until machine votes are recounted and absentee ballots are opened before conceding defeat.

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

Someone did, but not before some other people switched strategy from earlier absentee voting to actual machine balloting.

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

The BOE is required to first sample three percent of the voting machines for accuracy before opening the absentee ballots, officials said.

«But much like our electronic voting machines, our digital scans and other things, there was pilots done on those before we moved to those.»

Some senior figures who worry about the unions» grip on the party fear that a move aimed at diminishing organised - Labour's influence could end up handing them even more power than they had before: although they will lose their block votes, some fear that the unions will use their formidable organisation machines to register large numbers of associate members, and then attempt to influence their votes.

On this Tuesday evening, the leadership of the Ramapo Democratic political machine, which Ms. Stavisky refuses to condemn or attempt to disrupt, could very well attempt to prevent a resolution in support of a veto - empowered monitor in East Ramapo from going before the full legislature for a vote.

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

And, of course, it was Graham before them who famously said, «In the short term the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.»

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).

This would let an attacker connect to the machines before or during an election to install malicious voting software that subverts results.