Sentence examples for election computers from inspiring English sources

Fearing more attacks, electoral authorities have brought in the American computer security expert Kevin Mitnick and a Colombian security firm, Locknet, to help safeguard election computers.

Michael Harty, who suggested that programmers of election computers should be licensed, emphasizes the little-known fact that most state election laws are not mandatory but "directory," and levy few or no penalties against officials who do not obey them.

What was a team of seven has grown to 25 - programming the election computers, and checking the identities of people registering, to prevent multiple voting.

The administration put heavy pressure on the Fujimori government to hold a runoff after international monitors reported during the first-round vote that ballots and tally sheets had disappeared and election computer centers had shut their doors without explanation for many hours at a time.

Before voting got under way, Ukraine's interior minister, Arsen Avakov, said on his website that the election computer system had been the victim of a cyber attack and that counting would have to be done manually – but a spokeswoman later said the website had itself been hacked and the report was not true.

Moreover, there is no guarantee that the new registration lists will actually show up on the local election boards' computers, which apparently can't handle the new data.

No matter how deeply public officials may dedicate themselves to it, the task of tightening up the security on Election Night computers will remain a daunting one — and, if complete security is the standard, impossible.

On Election Night, computers can usually produce the final results faster than any other method of tabulation, and so enable local officials to please reporters on deadlines and to avoid the suspicions of fraud which long delays in counting can stimulate.

"I think the possibilities for rigging elections with computers are enormous.

For a year before the election, the computer supervisor, Christopher G. Seidel, worked from campaign offices and had virtually no Congressional duties, Ms. Cassidy is said to have testified.

Robert Naegele believes that no one person could steal an election by computer and, like Saltman, he does not regard computerized theft of a national election as at all plausible.