Sentence examples for physical ballot from inspiring English sources
Secondly, he called for a mandatory requirement for voting machines to provide a physical ballot in addition to a digital record: in Pennsylvania, for instance, 70% of digital votes leave no paper record at all.
Similarly, Halderman's previous research had demonstrated the importance of an auditable paper-trail for electronic voting: either the physical ballot for a machine that scans ballot papers, or a countable receipt for a fully digital system.
The ballot – conducted partly online, partly at physical ballot boxes – gave Hong Kong residents three options for how their next leader should be chosen, none of which allowed Beijing to select the candidates.
That wouldn't be so bad, since every electronic voting machine used in the United States leaves some sort of paper audit trail, either in the form of receipts printed off to mark the vote, or the physical ballot paper scanned in in the first place.
It's the insurance All-Star ballot, which is not a physical ballot at all but one now exclusively available online.
As explained by one of the vote supervisors, "the 82 physical ballot boxes arrived from polling stations stretching 20 miles or so across the Vale.
Canova sued Broward elections officials and asked to inspect the physical ballots in the race.
In 2016, Snipes was accused of destroying the physical ballots in a congressional race while saving digital copies as a lawsuit was pending — a violation of a federal statute requiring that congressional ballots be saved for 22 months after an election.
Up against this, you have the three main technical obstacles; Security (data-integrity would have to be paramount); Scaleability (the system would have to be 100% crash-proof); and Synergy (top-level interaction with the postal and physical ballots to ensure no one votes twice).
(There are actually two different physical ballots, one for each party).
It could also, arguably, be more reliable than physical ballots (remember the controversial hanging chad in the Florida elections during the Bush-Gore contest?).
