New SLO County election machines were touted as foolproof in 1962 — they weren’t
Voting machines were introduced to San Luis Obispo County on a trial basis during the 1958 election. As a result, some of the ...
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Election fact check: How voting machines work and why they're hard to hack
Historically, there have been five types of voting machines used in the U.S.: hand-counted paper, mechanical lever machines, punch-card machines, scanned paper ballots and direct-recording ...
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America’s complicated history with EVMs, and why the country almost stopped using them exclusively
The history of voting machines in the United States goes back over a century, with early mechanical voting machines (lever systems) introduced in the late 1800s and dominating for much of the 20th ...