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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