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Touch Screen
 
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Punch Ballot
 
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Optical Scan
 
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Lever Machine
 
#5
Absentee Only (Oregon)
 
#6
Other (explain)
 
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #25 on: January 03, 2009, 07:16:13 AM »


(Copying Pencil, actually. The writing utensil provided, that is - it is perfectly legal to use another writing utensil instead.)
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Countess Anya of the North Parish
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« Reply #26 on: January 04, 2009, 03:05:53 AM »

What is a lever machine?
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« Reply #27 on: January 04, 2009, 11:27:29 AM »


Be thankful you never had to use one.  AFAIK, they're still in use only in New York.  Basically they are a mechanical version of a touch screen.   You pulled a lever to close the curtain, then you had these little mechanical switches which were supposed to be set up so you couldn't do an overvote (i.e., vote for more than one candidate in a one candidate race)  When you threw back the lever, your vote would would be tallied by incrementing a mechanical counter for that candidate and the curtain would open.  The technology goes back to the 1890's.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html
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« Reply #28 on: January 04, 2009, 11:39:55 AM »

Pencil and paper (normal). Not sure why that wasn't listed...

Optical scan for municipal elections.
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« Reply #29 on: January 04, 2009, 11:50:20 PM »


Be thankful you never had to use one.  AFAIK, they're still in use only in New York.  Basically they are a mechanical version of a touch screen.   You pulled a lever to close the curtain, then you had these little mechanical switches which were supposed to be set up so you couldn't do an overvote (i.e., vote for more than one candidate in a one candidate race)  When you threw back the lever, your vote would would be tallied by incrementing a mechanical counter for that candidate and the curtain would open.  The technology goes back to the 1890's.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html

oh I am thankful. Thanks for answering my question.
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« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2009, 01:04:18 AM »

Optical scan, fill-in-the-bubble variety (normal).

Trying to explain to Michiganders that connect-the-arrow is infinitely more confusing than fill-in-the-bubble is painful.
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« Reply #31 on: January 08, 2009, 04:42:38 PM »

Connect the arrow, easiest system to use ever.
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« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2009, 05:52:12 PM »

lever machine
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« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2009, 03:12:22 PM »

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« Reply #34 on: February 02, 2009, 02:44:41 AM »

Optical scan.
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