All the wastebaskets were full of the curled strips of paper from the adding machines.
That could result in local officials alternating use of battery-powered touch-screen machines with paper ballots.
New Jersey is only the most recent battleground in the war between paper and electronic voting machines.
At least five different voting technologies will be used November 2: electronic machines, lever machines, paper ballots, optical scanners, and punch cards.
Those 10 undergo rigorous performance testing at the Trumbull, Conn. headquarters by white-coated lab technicians who run millions of pieces of paper through the equipment, spill coffee into copiers and jam paper clips into fax machines.
The fact that there's, many states will vote with non-verifiable machines with no paper trail.
The company that handles my recycling in Portland won't accept shredded paper because it breaks their machines.
One key to the selection: A voter-verified paper trail installed on the machines.
Holt has been trying for years to get a bill passed that would require some form of paper ballots on all voting machines.
The congressman already has more than half of his House colleagues as cosponsors for his bill to require paper backups on electronic voting machines.
Because the machines provide no paper record, no one can say for sure whether the missing votes, if counted more carefully, could have changed the outcome.
In New Jersey, for instance, polling places couldn't meet a 2008 deadline to add a paper trail to their voting machines, so the deadline was extended until 2009--after the election.
So on Feb. 5, his county, like many others in California and elsewhere, is reluctantly abandoning electronic voting machines and returning to paper.
In fact, a study in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, found that 10 percent of paper ballots attached to its touchscreen machines were blank, ripped or otherwise uncountable.
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.
We were right on the cusp of the electronic age and had begun to use phototypesetting machines, but the paper was still composed physically on cardboard flats with film strips, X-Acto knives, hot wax, and rubber rollers.
When America goes to the polls in November, every voter in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana will use the same direct response electronic (DRE) voting machines that lack any paper backup and have been shown again and again to suffer from security flaws, according to polling place data gathered by the non-profit VerifiedVoting.org.
Ever since Johannes Gutenberg developed movable type around 1439, making machines for putting ink on paper has been a growth industry.
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New Jersey has scheduled a public hearing for Thursday on the subject of establishing a paper trail for the Sequoia AVC Advantage machines.
It refuses, too, to count paper ballots as a check on controversial voting machines.
The other two machines used colour-coded slips of paper and chips of wood to represent information.
As president, I will require that all voting machines, including electronic ones, use paper ballots that can be verified by voters.
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All this is a shame, not least because Mr Negroponte's idea was sound and the machines' hardware, at least on paper, impressive.
Minnesota's most-harvested wood, aspen, has long cells and strong fibres, ideal for high-grade paper of the sort used for magazines and copy machines.
Fax machines and laser printers have sharply boosted paper sales.
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.
In Pittsburgh's Hill District, African-American voters expressed suspicion about the paper ballots they were offered when glitches developed in their electronic-voting machines.
Gov. Crist said he wants to get rid of all those touch-screen machines and replace them with optical scanning systems that would read paper ballots.
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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