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Touch Screen
 
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Punch Ballot
 
#3
Optical Scan
 
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Lever Machine
 
#5
Absentee Only (Oregon)
 
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Other (explain)
 
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« on: January 02, 2009, 08:54:43 PM »

I've managed to use touch screen, optical scan, punch card, and lever machines, tho not all in the same election. Cheesy   Didn't care for the lever machines at all.  Never saw why the punch cards were so demonized.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« Reply #1 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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