Sentence examples for ballot reader from inspiring English sources

Ballot reader machine at a Sun Valley precinct (Sara Watts).

Broken ballot reader at Kahal Joseph Synagogue Allison Burnettt).

Broken ballot reader at Fiesta Hall/Pink Table Plummer Park 1200 N Vista Street, West Hollywood, CA 90046 (Jainée Patrice).

L.A. polling place opened late and had a broken ballot reader with untrained poll workers in Los Feliz.

Broken ballot reader led to voters waiting and being turned away at The Hayward Apartments at 206th W 6th St., LA, CA 90014 (Brittany Tatiana Nylund).

Ballot reader was not taking ballots, leading to poll worker confusion and insecure ballots, 206 W 6th Street LA CA 90014 (Clare Gwinn Holzer).

In the Orlando area, meanwhile, elections workers had to review ballots from some 100 precincts by hand after electronic ballot readers could not record votes because of flaws in paper ballots used in optical-scanning machines.

Many precincts avoided the problem when some of the workers did a "fine job with pocketknives and scissors" in cutting the ballots to make them fit properly in the ballot readers, said Bill Cowles, the elections supervisor for Orange County.

At about 100 precincts in the Orlando area, election workers had to use scissors to cut across flawed ballots before handing them to voters to enable electronic ballot readers to properly record votes, said Mary Cruz, administrative assistant in the Orange County Elections Office.

Through a confluence of chance events -- ranging from mechanical glitches (the now infamous "hanging chad" throwing off automated ballot readers) to the zigzag trail of political and legal decisions that might have gone either way -- what the people of Florida really said may be not just uncertain but unknowable.

When these ballot readers malfunction, some polling places did not know what to do, and issued provisional ballots, which should count in theory, but don't have great odds.