Sentence examples for the optical scanning from inspiring English sources

The optical scanning system consists of precision positioning table, lighting, optics and operating system with analysis software.

There are machines, there's the optical scanning, and then there are a whole variety of ballots.

Instead, they'll be able to offer only direct recording devices, or D.R.E.'s, which are more expensive and less reliable that the optical scanning machines.

Mr. Finch's campaign manager, Tyrone McClain, said the optical scanning system voting machines failed in one Bridgeport district, forcing pollsters to hand-count about 70 votes.

The optical scanning equipment used to count Nebraska voters' paper ballots was tested by an independent laboratory, then certified by the secretary of state's office.

Mr. Holt's bill would also substantially toughen the requirements for the touch-screen machines that have printers, and experts say this could give even more impetus to the shift toward the optical scanning systems.

Statewide, the pattern was reversed on the optical scan systems.

"The fight out there is between the A.T.M. machines, and the optical scans," said Christopher Thomas, director of elections in Michigan, where 3,000 out of 5,500 precincts use optical scan systems.

Hart's optical scan machines did not count votes accurately, and the optical scan and electronic machines made by Election Systems & Software suffered programming errors and could be disabled by voters.

The optical scan is considered one of the most accurate voting mechanisms and the least likely to produce significantly different results in a recount.

A recent survey by Election Data Services, a Washington consulting firm, estimated that 36percentt of the nation's counties have bought electronic machines, including some with printers attached, while 56percentt have the optical scan systems.