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voting
voting Process employed to choose candidates for public office or to decide controversial issues. Early forms were by voice or sign, but the secret ballot became popular in order to eliminate the possibility of intimidation and corruption. Voters usually mark a piece of paper and deposit it in a ballot box, but in the USA voting machines, operated by polling levers, are commonly in use. See also
democracy;
election;
franchise
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Voting machines not ready: All 55 counties are affected by manufacturer's failure to meet deadline
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 4/19/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...punch card or lever voting machines by Jan. 1, 2006...handicapped accessible machine. Kanawha County selected...Kanawha cannot get the machines up and running for...disappointment in the voting machine company's inability...The letter went to voting machine company ...
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Electronic voting machines get OK for this year, but future's iffy.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 4/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...experts show that the machines, mostly bought and...accuracy. Clerks trust the machines but acknowledge that...for that uncertainty. Machine manufacturers face stricter...standards that current e-voting equipment may not meet...paper ballots or mail voting to increase voter ...
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Touch-Screen Voting Machines Criticized by Computer Scientists.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 8/18/2003; 700+ words
; ...the security of their voting machines. Dill has collected...election officials and voting machine vendors to halt the sale of electronic machines until upgrades are made...does not believe any voting fraud has yet occurred...
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Touch-Screen Voting Machines to Appear in Sacramento County, Calif.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 3/31/2004; 700+ words
; ...ballots: touch-screen voting machines. Elections officials...Thursday for a new voting system that would provide...one touch-screen machine in more than 800 polling...install touch-screen voting machines by the November election...a bind because any machine they select may ...
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Hacking Voting Machines For Election Security
Transcript from: NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday; 8/14/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...able to manipulate the machine in such a way that he...have found for other voting machines, and in fact for other studies of the same voting machine, but along the way we...larger implications for voting security. FLATOW: Such...
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Button on e-voting machine allows multiple votes
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...all touch-screen machines sold by Oakland-based Sequoia Voting Systems was not especially...reaching far behind the voting machine twice and triggering...the typical method of voting on the machines. In most counties...workers use a separate machine to activate a card...
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ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES:MICHAEL SHAMOS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 7/20/2004; 700+ words
; ...systematic science of voting machine technology, no engineering...adequate standards for voting machines, nor any effective testing...shaped the development of voting machines. When a flaw is detected in a voting machine, there is no compulsory...
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U.S.: FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA ATTEMPT TO DEBUG VOTING MACHINES.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 8/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...cards in voting machines manufactured by...s optical scan voting machine problems were fixed...measures to the voting machines in question. The...with optical scan machines in that you have...verify what the machine recorded." Dill...Diebold and other voting ...
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VOTING MACHINES ARE SECURE, OFFICIALS TELL A SKEPTICAL PUBLIC POTENTIAL HACKERS WOULD HAVE TO TRAVEL TO MULTIPLE PRECINCTS.(News)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 10/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to study various voting machines and establish uniform...then fed into a machine that counts the...hack into numerous machines - and into each...to travel from machine to machine, and...judges. Electronic voting also eliminates...touch-screen voting on a ...
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It's time for electronic voting machines to take hacker test
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze; 1/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...increase in absentee voting coincides with the introduction of electronic voting machines in California...cast on touch-screen machines. Many voters believe...than those cast by machine because they are paper...manipulate" its voting machines. Added Stone, "Maybe...can ...
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Voting Machine
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...Voting Machine The term voting machine encompasses a variety...recording votes. The voting machines commonly used in the...an automatic teller machine. Whatever the system the device uses, all voting machines have similar constraints...
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voting machine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...older mechanical voting machines, when a voter enters...means of a lever, the machine unlocks for voting. The titles of all...elections in 2007. The voting machine's greatest asset is protection against voting fraud or human error...citizens, that some machines are ...
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voting
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
voting Process employed to choose candidates for public office or to decide controversial...mark a piece of paper and deposit it in a ballot box, but in the USA voting machines, operated by polling levers, are commonly in use. See also democracy...
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American Locker Group Incorporated
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...least in part, to the U.S. Voting Machine Company, which was founded...1964 and renamed the Automatic Voting Machine Corporation (AVM). Rockwell...Venezuela to deliver 10,000 voting machines in time for the 1973 presidential...
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election
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...common after the rise of political machines, and the enactment of registration...elections, and the introduction of voting machines after 1892 have been more effective...election clearly revealed that some machine voting systems are more reliable than...
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