Last month, the city Board of Elections replaced the old lever-voting machines with a new electronic-scanning system, causing a wide array of problems.

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New forms of student verification are being developed and include such things as retinal scanning, electronic fingerprinting, and key stroke analysis.

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Launched in 2002, it was meant to revolutionise the way technology was used in the health service by paving the way for electronic records, digital scanning and integrated IT systems across hospitals and community care.

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The county wants to get a jumpstart on counting votes, because scanning all that paper will take a lot longer than tallying votes on electronic touch-screen machines.

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