Democrats were in charge and a disputed election in Florida had raised new questions about electronic voting.
Electronic voting, electronic polling, weekend voting and the like made little impact on the turnout.
New Jersey is only the most recent battleground in the war between paper and electronic voting machines.
He also reported that the electronic voting machines weren't any faster or more economical than manual counting.
California's study was hardly the first to alert the security world to the threat of electronic voting's flaws.
In 2010 New York became the last state to switch to electronic voting in compliance with federal law.
Dean Heller, Nevada's secretary of state, wants to instill that same degree of confidence in the state's electronic voting machines.
While he could not actually take apart any e-voting systems, McDermott reviewed tests and literature available on several electronic voting systems.
So on Feb. 5, his county, like many others in California and elsewhere, is reluctantly abandoning electronic voting machines and returning to paper.
But that research resulted in widespread scrutiny of electronic voting around the country, and Diebold machines were decertified for use in many states.
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That's causing local jurisdictions to take matters into their own hands as the debate over how to make electronic voting more reliable continues.
The motion picture academy and its longtime accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers, partnered with the electronic voting firm Everyone Counts Inc. to develop the new system.
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This has boosted efforts in Congress to require paper backups on electronic voting equipment, but some experts think that will only further complicate elections.
The congressman already has more than half of his House colleagues as cosponsors for his bill to require paper backups on electronic voting machines.
There have few problems with the mechanics of democracy today, Maryland voters showed up this morning, only to find widespread troubles with electronic voting equipment.
Some polling stations were open over the weekend or in supermarkets, while some councils have also used mobile polling statoins, electronic voting and more postal voting.
The meeting revealed that electronic voting would continue - following its successful introduction - but that alternative paper ballots would also remain for the immediate future.
Venezuela uses electronic voting machines which register an elector's decision and then emit a printed receipt for the voter to deposit into a sealed ballot box.
New Jersey's electronic voting machines came under scrutiny again in February, when county clerks noticed discrepancies in the machines' performance during the state's Super Tuesday primary.
Overall, the number of states with paperless electronic voting in every county has dropped from nine to six in the last two years, according to VerifiedVoting.org's tracking.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a part of the Commerce Department, is beginning the process of defining accuracy and security requirements for electronic voting equipment.
Some of the vote count was delayed on primary day as voters in Myrtle Beach reported malfunctioning electronic voting machines, and some were forced to use paper ballots.
The vote also bans other counties in California from introducing new ATM-like electronic voting equipment in November, unless the machines include a verified paper trail of votes cast.
"If you want to talk about security, I would say right now the electronic voting devices in Nevada are the most secure devices in the country right now, " Heller says.
Some people have speculated Venezuela will not be ready to organize the vote in time, but elections council chief Tibisay Lucena said the country's electronic voting system was fully prepared.
But in a briefing on electronic voting pitfalls on Capitol Hill on Monday, Felten said these kinds of anomalies were seen on dozens of machines across New Jersey on Super Tuesday.
Several counties in New Jersey use electronic voting machines.
As a result of the report, Quebec's Municipal Affairs Minister Nathalie Normandeau is accepting Blanchet's recommendation that the current moratorium on electronic voting put in place after last year's elections be maintained, apparently indefinitely.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced almost a year ago, January 25, 2012, that it had selected Everyone Counts, Inc. for its first foray into electronic voting for the awards.
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