Vote: The Machinery of Democracy
The invention of a practical voting machine was the preoccupation of reformers in the late 19th century. The operating features of these gear-and-lever machines followed ...
http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/votingmachine.html
Voting machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Commonly, a voter enters the machine and pulls a lever to close the curtain, thus unlocking the voting levers. The voter then makes his or her selection from a list of switches ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_machine
The History of Voting Machines - History of the Voting System ...
Interlocks in the machine prevent the voter from voting for more choices than permitted. The first official use of a lever type voting machine, known then as the "Myers Automatic ...
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm
Mechanical Lever Machines
Mechanical Lever Machines. On mechanical lever voting machines, the name of each candidate or ballot issue choice is assigned a particular lever in a rectangular array of ...
http://www.fec.gov/pages/lever.htm
Douglas W. Jones Illustrated Voting Machine History
Lever voting machines were so pervasive by the mid 20th century that most of us born in midcentury grew up assuming that all voting machines were and would always be lever machines
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/
votingmachines.procon.org
http://votingmachines.procon.org/sourcefiles/levermachinepatent.pdf
A Love Affair With Lever Voting Machines - City Room ...
Activists in New York, which has had a long and deep relationship with lever voting machines, insist that the clunky old system is superior to the new computerized ones.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/a-love-affair-with-lever-voting-machines/
Mechanical Lever Machines : Voting & US Politics
Learn more about voting systems and balloting when you vote.
http://www.uselections.com/voting/mech.htm
lever voting machines | Election Defense Alliance
Election Defense Alliance (EDA) is building a national citizen movement to expose electoral fraud and establish electoral integrity, so that governments accountable to the people ...
http://electiondefensealliance.org/article_topic/lever_voting_machines
New York Is Poised to Give Up Shoup Lever Voting Machines - NYTimes ...
After years of delays and missteps, the Board of Elections is expected to choose a new electronic system that should be rolled out in time for the September primary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/nyregion/04machines.html
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