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But they provide no paper backup , a safety feature that critics say would help guard against fraud and bolster voter confidence.Crist told a group of newspaper editors he would ask the state legislature for $ 20 million to switch to machines with a paper backup.Ensuring the integrity of elections is the cornerstone of any democracy , he said . California 's law " is indistinguishable in any constitutionally significant respect " from the federal sentencing guidelines that have been approved by the Supreme Court.Alito 's dissent also suggested that the court may not be done tinkering with the federal sentencing scheme , if the justices apply the same line of reasoning to two federal sentencing cases they will hear next month . President Bush appointed the two conservative justices.In the Texas case , an employee of an adult bookstore in El Paso was arrested in 2003 for selling a sex toy to undercover police officers . Instead , Wittes explains that " the rise of Senate fights over nominees " should be seen as " an institutional reaction on the part of the legislative branch to the growth of judicial power in the years since the Supreme Court handed down Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 . But it continues in Virginia in part because gambling on or charging admission to a cockfight is only a Class 3 misdemeanor - - punishable by no more than a $ 500 fine.As a result , although more than 100 participants were arrested last Sunday in Boydton , the only ones facing jail time are those charged with immigration violations.In December 2005 , when North Carolina elevated the penalty for cockfighting to a felony , Virginia became second only to Alabama in the leniency of its penalties .