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a card on which data can be recorded in the form of punched holes

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But the problem of voting machinery loomed largest in Congress, (11) as lawmakers contemplated the unreliability of the punch-card and lever voting machines used during the 2000 election.
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In fact, Illinois had a larger overall percentage of voters using punch cards than did Florida, while Arizonans voted with punch-card technology in nine of fifteen counties.
The effect of HAVA on late-to-innovate states: external influence on election reform in Arizona and Illinois
The insurance industry has been investing in automation since the early 1960s, when insurance companies adopted punch-card systems.
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The punch-card voting systems, at the centre of the controversy in Florida in 2000 are also still in widespread use.
Fears of a farce in US election
Gore pointed to the problems with punch-card voting machines, which prevent a significant number of ballots from being counted because of errors such as "hanging chads." Bush v.
Fairness the ballot box: several high-profile cases claim that citizens who use inferior voting machines are disenfranchised when others vote with state-of-the-art technology. These cases ask: what good is the right to vote if every ballot isn't counted?
California counties currently have different voting systems, and some of them still employ the flawed punch-card machines that denied the franchise to so many Floridians.
Recall recalls 2000
NOD believes important provisions of the bill that will benefit the disability community include requiring at least one voting machine that is accessible to people with disabilities at each polling place and providing funding to buy out punch-card and lever voting machines in favor of more user-friendly ones.
Voting reform bill signed. (News Beat)
The devices range from high-tech electronic vote counters that record choices on magnetic disks, to punch-card ballots, in which a stylus is used to punch a hole next to a candidate's name (see chart, page 15).
Debugging the ballot: counting votes should be easy. But counting millions is another matter. And when the system breaks down, the failures can be spectacular. (National)
He was spurred to write it after a visit to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, where he saw, prominently displayed, a punch-card tabulator identified as a product of IBM.
A matter of business
Pierre Charial's vintage barrel organ provided the music's spine, his heavy strip of punch-card feeding through the mechanism as he worked its wheel.
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The first exhibit was a Hollerith punch-card sorting machine bearing an IBM logo plate.
IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation
There are local reporters all around the country who have witnessed firsthand the inaccuracies of punch-card systems and the uncertainties of court-decided hand recounts.
Electoral Dysfunction: Will the Media Fail Again?
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