Sentence examples for ballot scanning from inspiring English sources

Seven counts - including those for four seats in Edinburgh and others affecting seats in Glasgow, Eastwood, Linlithgow, Livingston, Perth and Tayside North - were suspended until noon yesterday because of problems with ballot scanning machines, which cost £4.3m.

June 1, 2010 - Mail ballot scanning process begins (computer processing).

The poll worker, however, was at my right elbow and told me not to worry about the system error; it was being generated with every single ballot scanned.

Voters had to wait in four lines — to determine which election district they lived in, to get a ballot, to fill out the ballot, and to get the ballot scanned.

But the most concerning aspect of my voting experience today was that it was relatively easy for the assisting election clerk to see who I voted for -- since he/she is integral to the process of getting the ballot scanned in.

In the New Mexico county of Bernalillo, which includes Albuquerque, officials were tallying 67,000 absentee and early ballots that had not been counted due to a malfunction in a ballot-scanning machine.

Mr. Ritter said in a letter to the county clerks that other pieces of legislation already in the General Assembly's pipeline would get electronic voting machines recertified for the limited purpose of providing access to disabled voters, and get ballot-scanning devices back up and running in time to count the paper ballots on election night.

It would have made sense to have the ballots scan upside down so as to protect each voter's right to be anonymous.

The best available technology at this time is precinct-based paper ballot optical scan voting equipment.

While the paper ballot optical scan voting system is new to New York City voters, it is used in 18 other states and was first introduced as a pilot project in 42 of New York State's counties in the 2009 elections, where poll site surveys conducted by the New York State League of Women Voters found that for most voters it was a very positive experience.

I say "think" because when the ballot was scanned, the machine said, "Your vote has been counted" and the public count number incremented by one, but the screen also announced a "system error" and instructed me to contact a poll worker.