Sentence examples for digital ballots from inspiring English sources

The TUC has spent several years campaigning for the right to conduct digital ballots, but was only able to win the right to a review of the concept and a pilot scheme in the controversial Trade Union Act brought in this year.

Second, for all federal elections regardless of outcome, state and local governments would be required to conduct audits comparing digital ballots to a random selection of paper ballots.

Following an eleventh-hour order instructing voting officials in Alabama to keep the digital ballots generated in Tuesday's controversial Senate election, the state's Supreme Court has issued a stay to block that decision.

The digital ballot is being delivered over the Internet with software updates, and it is expected to take until mid-May to complete the process.

"Why We Fear the Digital Ballot" (Week in Review, Sept. 26) pooh-poohs those who question unverifiable digital voting as conspiracy theorists.

Jonathan Bruno Oberlin, Ohio, Sept. 28, 2004 To the Editor: "Why We Fear the Digital Ballot" (Week in Review, Sept. 26) pooh-poohs those who question unverifiable digital voting as conspiracy theorists.

A paper ballot is better than a digital ballot with a physical paper trail, he told me, because it guards against sophisticated hackers making a voting machine record one vote but spit out a paper receipt for another.

They ask, "can't we just audit the digital ballot images that the machines provide?" No, that won't work: If the machine is hacked to lie about the vote totals, it can easily be hacked to provide fake digital pictures of the ballots themselves.

"All counties employing digital ballot scanners in the Dec. 12, 2017 election are hereby ordered to set their voting machines to save all processed images in order to preserve all digital ballot images," the Montgomery County order stated.

This secure digital ballot box cannot be hacked, wherein results can never be altered, and voter identities are protected.

The word coercion has appeared in 423 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov. 11 in the Bits blog post "Disruptions: Casting a Ballot by Smartphone" by Nick Bilton: Digital voting could drive more Americans to the polls.