I think I found the "perfect" voting machine that a few of you have
described using in the past.
I found a punch card voting expert who emailed me some links (below) to
the device. It's called DataVote and I think it's great in its
inexpensive simplicity and surety. They could keep its retro look as
retro is fashionable or give it a modern facelift. Go DataVote GO!
db
On Jan 8, 2008, at 5:58 PM, db wrote:
I was looking for brand info on ballot punch device used by some
polling places. Some people have talked about using one that had a
lever that cleanly and consistently punched an IBM card type ballots
and in googling for such I came across your web article:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/chad.html
Do you possibly know the brand?
The DataVote system fits your description. I have a DataVote ballot
in my collection:
-- http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/datavote.jpg
The Smithsonian has a DataVote punch:
-- http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/resources_datavote.html
Doug Jones
db wrote:
I wonder what the brand of puncher was ... does anyone know?
In googling, I see reference mostly to the Votomatic that was
problematically used in Florida. There is an older Coyle model shown
in a photo in the following link:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/punchcard.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_machine#Punch_card
??
dab
Tom Piwowar wrote:
It was a system that used an IBM card and a hand pressed punch,
with no electricity required. The card was inserted in the simple
machine. You could see the card at all times. You slid a pointer
down until it was next to your choice of candidate or issue. You
then pressed down
I used to live in a place that used those. As you wrote, they were
great. Also, because they were inexpensive the poll had lots of them
ready. So there was no bottleneck waiting to get at one of the small
number of expensive machines.
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