Instead, the machines that scan the new SAT-style ballots are programmed to start beeping and to offer a choice on their digital touch-screens: a green button for voters to confirm their choices and cast their ballot, or a red button to scrap their votes and start over.
At 2 40 p.m., after Mr. Poyntz's gadgets had been tested and election workers had gulped down a sandwich, the separation of the questionable ballots was about to start in a low-ceilinged, windowless room on the second floor of the City Hall Annex.
Scanners can reject improperly marked ballots, allowing the voter to start over, thereby reducing discarded votes.
Palm Beach and Broward Counties continued with their hand recounts of ballots and Miami-Dade County decided to start its own.
You can donate your money, your time, your resources, whatever you have, and literally, tomorrow, you can start making a difference, rather than waiting for something to come up on a ballot, or waiting for somebody to start a P.T.A. group or something like that.
Will the probability of the increased repression combined with the elimination of the ballot box path cause some to start exploring other avenues for change?
The Americans have responded by asking the Afghans to start printing ballot-papers in advance.
A plan to start the balloting in February has fallen apart, with Florida and other states rushing to move up the dates of their primary contests.
Organizers were meant to start counting ballots at 7pm, according to the rules.
After a voter called the elections board and found out that there was, in fact, an emergency box, a man who appeared to be the site supervisor instructed the workers to start handing out ballots, without checking names or getting signatures.
