According to the report, Miami-Dade's online ballot request system had "very low" security, with no user-specific logins or passwords.
Earlier this year, Brighton and Hove became the first council to opt for a ballot element in its school admissions system.
Brighton and Hove council introduced a system that uses a ballot as a tie-break in determining places in its eight secondary schools - with a particular problem in two catchment areas which each have two secondary schools very close to one another.
In return for supporting tax increases Mr Maldonado wants support for a ballot initiative that would reform the primary system, making it more hospitable to people like him (ah, to hold the deciding vote at such a time).
This, the Gould report pointed out, enabled the SNP to appear at the top of all but one regional list in the elections, which saw a new ballot paper design and a new voting system for the council seats.
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Currently, two writers from each of the 14 American League cities will name up to 10 ball players and allocate a weighted point system to each spot on the ballot where the names of the candidates appear.
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The solution: Smith advocates an optical scan system where voters fill out a paper ballot that's subsequently scanned to create a digital vote.
He also hit out at the present proportional representation system for voting for assembly members which he described as leading to "perverse outcomes", with candidates defeated in a first-past-the-post system getting in under the regional list ballot.
The elections saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.
Newt Gingrich, one of the leading US Republican presidential candidates, has said Virginia's electoral system is flawed, after failing to qualify for the primary ballot in his home state.
The bill paves the way for a referendum on changing the Westminster electoral system from first-past-the-post to the Alternative Vote (AV) system, whereby voters rank candidates in order of preference on the ballot paper.
There, the punch card system gave rise to dimpled ballots and hanging chads, leaving electoral officials to scrutinise ballot papers to decipher the voter's intention.
Under the system that voters have now approved, all Californian voters will in future receive the same ballot, irrespective of their own or the candidates' party affiliation, and the two leading vote getters will move on to the general election, even if they belong to the same party.
In other areas of England and Wales, Thursday's ballot papers asked voters to select a first and second choice for the post, using the supplementary vote system.
More than 4, 000 different ballot types had to be prepared, and 7, 000 poll workers had to be trained on an entirely new system.
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