Ballot-box hanky-panky is also much harder in an age of machine voting (the controversy in 2000 was not over intentional fraud, but counting rules and ballot design).
"This is a voting machine disagreeing with itself about how many voters there were, " Felten said.
Then it was spun off in the 1960s and renamed Automatic Voting Machine Corp.
There are state and federal standards now and the Federal Election Commission must approve voting machine vendors.
The source code for all of these systems is closely held by the five big voting machine companies.
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"Without a paper trail attached to a voting machine today, I think any election would be suspect, " Heller says.
Votes are stored in duplicate, in a removable card locked inside the voting machine and in built-in semiconductor memory.
Both are charged with unlawful possession of a voting machine, which is a felony, and dealing in stolen property.
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Indian authorities have demanded that Prasad reveal the source of the voting machine they tested and used in this video.
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The board cited a ruling by Harris' office that hand recounts may only be conducted if there is evidence of voting machine failure.
Benjamin Graham said that in the short-term the stock market is a voting machine, while in the long-term it is a weighing machine.
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It is often said that the stock market in the short run is a voting machine and a weighing machine in the long run.
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Then Venezuela abruptly canceled a huge voting machine contract, but only after AVM had borrowed up to the hilt to tool up for the order.
In interviews after their arrests, the men said the voting machine was stolen from the Winston Trails Clubhouse in Lake Worth on Thursday, November 9.
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Spun off in the 1960s and renamed Automatic Voting Machine Corp.
No voting machine in the world, being mechanical that is operated by the human hand, can achieve the accuracy we are demanding of it in this election.
For this year's general election, Nevada is the only state where virtually every voting machine has a paper backup that could aid in a machine malfunction, an audit or a recount.
Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was sold to Rockwell International.
Founded in 1895 as U.S. Voting Machine Co. to exploit Thomas Edison's pioneering invention to make elections more honest, the company plodded along for decades and was eventually sold to Rockwell International.
In the short term, the stock market behaves like a voting machine, but in the long term it acts like a weighing machine (i.e. its true value will in the long run be reflected in its stock price).
That group of brainiacs came together to devise a new, even easier hack that allows someone with no special access to take complete control of a Sequoia AVC Advantage voting machine -- an example of which the team purchased legally at a government auction.
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The first unsettling report originated in The Free Press, has been corroborated by multiple sources and was covered on Forbes by Rich Ungar, in a very well-read post, Romney Family Investment Ties To Voting Machine Company That Could Decide The Election Causing Concern.
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You went to the table for your election district, signed in, went to a big old steel mechanical voting machine made in Jamestown, New York, pulled a big lever, set small levers for all the candidates you wanted, pulled the big lever back, and were done.
Voting will be electronic - one machine will identify voters' fingerprints, and a second will recognise identity card numbers and register the vote anonymously.
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