Sentence examples for paperless voting system from inspiring English sources

Pamela Smith, the president of VerifiedVoting.org, points to an election in Carteret County, N.C., where a race for the secretary of agriculture was held in limbo after thousands of votes were lost due to bugs in a touchscreen paperless voting system.

In addition to eliminating paperless voting systems, we must require manufacturers to disclose all information concerning their voting machines.

The Johns Hopkins and SAIC reports are part of a growing chorus of criticism about the reliability and safety of paperless voting systems.

"There's no question in my mind that ultimately there will be paper trails in every county in Florida," said Representative Robert Wexler, a Florida Democrat whose suits challenging paperless voting systems are on appeal.

Many of the paperless machines were bought in a rush to overhaul the voting system after the disputed presidential election in 2000, which was marred by hanging chads.

Such machines are more reliable than paperless voting.

Given this pattern, there will be skepticism if Florida's paperless voting machines give President Bush an upset, uncheckable victory.

It is little wonder that last month, Fortune magazine named paperless voting its "worst technology" of 2003.

Our voting system is breaking up Britain".

Still, the voting system creates confusion.

The British voting system is creaking.