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The Votronic, from 1965, was the first optical mark vote tabulator able to sense marks made with a graphite pencil. [1] The oldest optical-scan voting systems scan ballots using optical mark recognition scanners. Voters mark their choice in a voting response location, usually filling a rectangle, circle or oval, or by completing an arrow.
A Dominion ImageCast precinct-count optical-scan voting machine, mounted on a collapsible ballot box made by ElectionSource. Dominion Voting Systems Corporation was founded in 2002 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, by John Poulos and James Hoover, [27] and was incorporated on January 14, 2003. [28]
1964: The Norden-Coleman optical scan voting system, the first such system to see actual use, was adopted for use in Orange County, California. [209] 1974: The Video Voter, the first DRE voting machine used in a government election, developed by the Frank Thornber Company in Chicago, Illinois, saw its first trial use in 1974 near Chicago. [210]
Your last-minute guide for voting in 2022 Los Angeles city elections. Times staff. November 7, 2022 at 10:36 AM. Los Angeles City Hall. (Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images)
A DRE voting machine, or direct-recording electronic voting machine, records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter. These are typically buttons or a touchscreen; and they process data using a computer program to record voting data and ballot images in memory ...
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In a DRE voting machine system, a touch screen displays choices to the voter, who selects choices, and can change their mind as often as needed, before casting the vote. Staff initialize each voter once on the machine, to avoid repeat voting. Voting data are recorded in memory components, and can be copied out at the end of the election.
In its final election-night release, just after 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the county registrar-recorder's office said it had counted 1,318,093 ballots — a total that includes all in-person voting and ...