Sentence examples for workers error from inspiring English sources

Workers' error contributed to the 12-hour breakdown of the Long Island Rail Road after a lightning strike last year, according to a new report.

Voting officials in southwest Fulton County, Ga., received court approval on Tuesday afternoon to extend the voting day by an hour after machines did not work because of poll workers' error, election officials said.

Properly trained poll workers, and rapid-response teams on Election Day -- Many of the problems that have occurred so far with electronic voting were due to election workers' errors.

"The Justice Department is considering whether we need to propose concrete solutions… to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised by moves close to an election, by appearing at the wrong polling place, or by simple poll workers' errors," he said.

"The Justice Department is considering whether we need to propose concrete solutions, such as a national standards for counting provisional ballots for federal elections, to ensure that voters are not disenfranchised by moves close to an election, by appearing at the wrong polling place, or by simple poll workers' errors," he said.

Isolated voting problems were reported in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland and Pennsylvania because of a combination of poll worker error and machine failures.

In the 2008 election in Ohio, 14,000 provisional ballots were discounted through a combination of voter and poll worker error.

The resulting distribution of error types in both studies 1 and 2 was respectively as follows: slips (42% and 12.2%); memory lapses (0% and 2.4%); violations (17% and 7.3%); knowledge-based errors (11% and 0%); and no worker error (30%andd 78.1%).

And the judge, Algenon Marbley, agreed: "To disenfranchise citizens whose only error was to rely on poll worker error seems fundamentally unfair," he wrote in his decision.

At the same time, the court ruled that poll worker error is not a valid reason to reject a provisional ballot.

Those seemingly innocuous things could yield important clues about what went wrong inside a company – an equipment malfunction or worker error, for example – and help formulate safety improvements or regulatory changes, he said.