We turn now to stories about two products a lot of Americans worry about: toys and voting machines.
It refuses, too, to count paper ballots as a check on controversial voting machines.
In indigenous areas in the Amazon, these voting machines were delivered by boats and helicopters.
Touch-screen voting machines don't have keyboards, Internet connections or even ports that hackers could exploit.
And in South Carolina last weekend, some voting machines didn't start up on time.
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.
Sarasota election workers spent hours today at a warehouse testing five of the county's touch screen voting machines.
The Jacksonville Times-Union reported long lines in northeast Florida, with at least two counties reporting problems with voting machines.
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Irregularities include claims that on Election Day about 535 voting machines were damaged and they affected almost 190, 000 voters.
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Dean Heller, Nevada's secretary of state, wants to instill that same degree of confidence in the state's electronic voting machines.
The judge's order ruled that all voting machines and provisional and emergency ballots be impounded in Cherry Hill until further notice.
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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That would mean phasing out the use of touch-screen voting machines, which currently count nearly half the ballots cast in Florida.
There will now be a serious push for ATM-like voting machines that can be activated by a secure bank-like voter card.
Maryland uses touch-screen voting machines, but Mr. Goldstein said printed ballots are ready if necessary in areas affected by the storm.
Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ) voting machines, which have since been rebranded as Premier Election Solutions.
Most voting machines are 40 to 50 years old, with century-old technology.
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.
Holt has been trying for years to get a bill passed that would require some form of paper ballots on all voting machines.
So on Feb. 5, his county, like many others in California and elsewhere, is reluctantly abandoning electronic voting machines and returning to paper.
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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Admittedly, this is more complex than plurality voting and cannot be used with current American voting machines (though it is used in Australia).
The three-man panel's decision is based on the fact that 44% of the likely voters will have to use the old punch-card voting machines.
Around the country there will now be a serious push for ATM-like voting machines that can be activated by a secure bank-like voter card.
The congressman already has more than half of his House colleagues as cosponsors for his bill to require paper backups on electronic voting machines.
Voters and election workers used flashlights and candles to see the voting machines -- which still worked -- until the polls closed at 8 p.m.
The Republicans argue that voting machines are more reliable than humans and that no ballot should count if it doesn't register in a machine tabulation.
New Jersey uses four different kinds of voting machines, Venetis says.
Election Protection reported that voting machines malfunctioned in Henrico County, Va.
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