Her office instructed election officials that only machine malfunctions could justify a manual recount.

The only exception is the sort of heat fault that makes a machine malfunction after it has been switched on for a given time or when the room warms up.

On the other hand, subway riders are often frustrated by the "Please Swipe Again" message that appears when a card has not been swiped properly or the machine malfunctions.

Ms. Green sought a hand recount, but the canvassing board rejected her request, ruling there was no indication of fraud or a machine malfunction.

Mike "Cowboy" Elliott, the Suns' assistant athletic trainer who is thirty years D'Antoni's junior, claims that his higher score was removed by a machine malfunction.

The role also includes maintaining records and logging events, listing e.g. each backup that is run, each machine malfunction and program abnormal termination.

If the machine malfunctions, team members are permitted to manually guide it to the next step; a penalty is assessed for each intervention.

They use the melted parts of the possessed doll to rebuild it, and in the process one of the factory workers is electrocuted and killed when the machine malfunctions.

These allegations included missing and uncounted votes, machine malfunction, and a lack of correlation between the vote count and exit polling.

Some have suggested that random audits of direct recording electronic voting machines be performed on Election Day to protect against machine malfunction.