voting machine

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voting machine (plural voting machines)

Any machine used in place of a paper ballot. In the model used in the US the voters mark their choice by switching levers and then pulling the master switch to reset the machine and place their vote.

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[Shorter variant:] In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine. Benjamin Graham

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind. DeForest Soaries

We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured. Marcy Kaptur

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold. Avi Rubin

Anyone with a disability who encounters an accessibility problem, including untrained workers to assist them or lack of a working electronic voting machine, can call HDRC. Source: Internet

A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania -- but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machines there were down for hours. Source: Internet

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