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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (23664)	12/26/2004 8:44:30 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Punch-card voting was widely in use during the 20th century and became the dominant method of voting by the 1980ís [Jones]. This technique requires voters to form a chad on the ballot next to the selected candidateís name using a small punching device. These dimpled ballots, shown in Figure 2, are fed into computer-tabulating machines, and stored in case a recount is necessary. According to Kevin Bensor, ìFulton and De Kalb Counties in Georgia were the first jurisdictions to use punch cards and computer tally machines when they adopted the system for the 1964 primary election.î Punch-card machines remain popular today; in the 1996 presidential election, some variation of the system was used by 37.3% of registered voters in the United States courses.cs.vt.edu Your link. Computer tally machines? I think you're drunk. Happy Kwanza, Orca

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