Last week, the Assembly's electronic tally board went on the blink, leaving clerks to record votes without the help of green and red lights.
In the United States, a single physical ballot is often used to record multiple separate votes.
The devices are not actual voting machines; they cannot record votes, but merely generate a printed ballot on a sheet of white paper.
First, members in favour of the motion rise, so that the clerks may record their names and votes.
Many fears focused on touch-screen machines, which studies show sometimes fail to record votes.
Random numbers are used to record votes.
How are recorded votes taken in the Congress?
"These are recorded votes, and there are going to be a lot of 60-second commercials out there."
These engineers will record the debates and votes in order to produce a 360o panorama of Parliament's work.
Since then, the system has been updated, but the city is still using the Shoup machines to record votes.