Sentences with phrase «voting machines for»

The Weber County elections office provided electronic voting machines for the students to use in an attempt to draw the youngest demographic of voters to the polls in November.

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

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

In an Aug. 31 letter to attorneys in the case, Democratic Commissioner David Gugerty said the board must order ballots, hire inspectors and program voting machines for the 15 polling sites in the district.

He however noted that the Kaduna State Government has decided to use electronic voting machines for its Local Government elections, and was free to train their personnel on how to use the machines.

But he is completely correct to point out how the Independence Party has adopted a policy of selling its line on the voting machine for money or patronage.

Not exact matches

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

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.

They asked shop - floor employees first to vote on which part of the multistep machine should get the investment, and then to choose between two competing suppliers for what they had collectively decided on, a robotic slitter - scorer.

The Brennan Center for Justice estimated in August that up to 20 % of US voters would use a digital system without a paper trail to cast votes on November 8, and 42 states would use voting machines that were at least a decade old and had outdated hardware and software.

q Proxy Solicited by the Board of Directors for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders — April 26, 2016 Virginia M. Rometty, Martin J. Schroeter, Michelle M. Browdy and Christina M. Montgomery, or any of them with the power of substitution, are hereby appointed Proxies of the undersigned to vote all common stock of International Business Machines Corporation owned on the record date by the + undersigned at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center, One International Drive, Hutchinson Island, Savannah, Georgia 31402, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 26, 2016, or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

In a recent blog post, former Edmonton PC MLA and cabinet minister David King asked «Should Albertans vote for a P.C. candidate, in any constituency, and elect a cog in a machine that is running amuck?»

While virtually all such complex systems have bugs, few computer systems seem to inspire the degree of sanguine faith in their reliability that voting machines do for their owners.

In a statement released this afternoon, Ulrich said he was «appalled, but not shocked» by the Post story that Graves was suspended from his $ 66,392 - a-year job at the board after being caught on tape soliciting a $ 25,000 «finder's fee» from Denver - based Dominion Voting Systems, which was competing for a a $ 65 million electronic voting machine contract in 2009.

Ademusire stated that the Commission would adopt simultaneous accreditation and voting system for the election with the use of newly developed card reader machines.

This model contrasts with the classic 19th century - style American political machine, which was locally based: each thrived when it could deliver government services and political patronage in exchange for votes in a given city or neighborhood.

After the recount of roughly 5,100 voting machines and so - called «emergency» paper ballots used by those who could for whatever reason not cast their vote in the usual way, de Blasio's tally stands at 40.88, which is up from 40.33 percent via the unofficial results on primary night.

A second terminal has long been opposed by Weinberg, and Sweeney is fishing for North Jersey votes since he is a creature of the South Jersey machine which is headed by South Jersey Democratic Political Boss George Norcross.

«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.»

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.

The news, broken yesterday afternoon by James Forsyth, that Stephen Parkinson, Theresa May's senior Special Adviser, is off to work for the Vote Leave campaign is a major boost the anti-EU machine.

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

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.

And he argued that by dismantling a vote - winning Labour machine, the current leadership were doing the Tories» job for them.

Row of electronic voting machines - an odd exhibit for a London office (unless you happen to make them) pic.twitter.com / c3DGRNLlXE

If you downloaded and ran the software, your machine began tallying up votes for Capps and Andrews faster than a Diebold rigged for George W. Bush.

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.

State Senator Avella said, «It's ridiculous that New Yorkers vote on ballots designed for machines no longer in use.

We will get 135,000 - plus votes for Andrew Cuomo, and that's without the paper ballots or the machine re-canvass.

In the interim, the board will collect the 266 electronic voting machines in the district and check for irregularities.

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?

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.

New voting machines being used in the city for the first time caused delays in tabulating the vote.

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.

The machine votes for the 14th District Council race have been re-counted, all the paper ballots (absentee and affidavit) have been tallied and Fernando Cabrera is still in the lead over Maria Baez by about 69 votes, said Democratic County Chairman Carl Heastie in a phone interview.

The other data stick remains with the voting machine scanner and is retrieved by the BOE when the VMs are returned to the borough BOE for the recanvass.

In Midtown, one machine serving District 12 broke, prompting Gregg Kaminksy, 46, to cast his votes for Christine Quinn, Eliot Spitzer and Corey Johnson with a paper ballot.

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.

One of three ballot - scanning machines was out of service at the church in Mount Kisco where the Democratic candidate for governor, Andrew Cuomo, voted Tuesday morning.

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.

There is an alternative to Ruben Wills, his party machine antics, and theft of the people's right to vote for a candidate of their choice.

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.

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.

Gone are the machines most people have been voting on for decades — with the big levers.

Russell D. Renka, a former political science professor at Southeastern Missouri State University, [50] acknowledged that it was more than likely that Johnson's political machine in the state's lower Rio Grande Valley counties, including the notorious Duval County, could have «managed to produce a significant number of forged votes» for Kennedy.

However, there have been no convictions in the US of any voter for commiting fraud on voting machines.

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.

High school students in the Syracuse City School District participated in a mock election for president, Senate and House of Representatives using official ballots and voting machines from the Onondaga County Board of Elections.