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To: ColtonGang who wrote (70245)	11/11/2000 3:28:11 PM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769670

The culprit........With a punch card system, the voter uses a stylus to punch out tiny circles or rectangles in a card. This is the old IBM computer card system. The cards are fed into a mechanical card reader that detects which holes have been punched and records the vote totals. The actual voting equipment is very cheap. Voters just need a stylus or even paperclip to punch out the holes, but most jurisdictions using punch cards provide the voter with a frame that makes it clear which hole corresponds to which option. The use of punch card systems is declining, as the number of companies that can service card readers decreases. New punch card systems use equipment that, like a precinct scanner, secures ballot in a box after voters casts them.