Voting machine is a machine used to record votes without paper.
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16 Facts About Voting machine
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Traditionally, a voting machine has been defined by its mechanism, and whether the system tallies votes at each voting location, or centrally.
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In 1875, Henry Spratt of Kent received a US patent for a voting machine that presented the ballot as an array of push buttons, one per candidate.
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Spratt's Voting machine was designed for a typical British election with a single plurality race on the ballot.
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Beranek's Voting machine presented an array of push buttons to the voter, with one row per office on the ballot, and one column per party.
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The Voting machine had two doors, one marked "Gents" and the other marked "Ladies".
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The Voting machine prevented a voter from spoiling their ballot by skipping rankings and by giving the same ranking to more than one candidate.
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Inside the Voting machine, Gillespie worked out how to make the Voting machine programmable so that it could support races in which voters were allowed to vote for, for example, 3 out of 5 candidates.
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Commonly, a voter enters the machine and pulls a lever to close the curtain, thus unlocking the voting levers.
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The Voting machine is configured to prevent overvotes by locking out other candidates when one candidate's lever is turned down.
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Voting machine data are recorded in memory components, and can be copied out at the end of the election.
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Central counting can be done by hand, and in some jurisdictions, central counting is done using the same type of voting machine deployed at polling places, but since the introduction of the Votomatic punched-card voting system and the Norden Electronic Vote Tallying System in the 1960s, high speed ballot tabulators have been in widespread use, particularly in large metropolitan jurisdictions.
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Voting machine designed by Alfred J Gillespie and marketed by the Standard Voting Machine Company of Rochester, New York from the late 1890s.
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DRE voting machine used in all major Indian elections with its separate ballot unit and control unit.
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DRE voting machine used in all major Indian elections with its separate ballot unit and VVPAT unit.
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