[IP] How science speeds the counting of 40 million votes
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From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: October 29, 2006 9:01:47 AM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: How science speeds the counting of 40 million votes
The Make: blog turned up this 1940 article from Popular Science about
"modern" vote counting. Thought people might get a kick out of it in
the context of the present voting machine discussions.
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Date: October 28, 2006 1:55:22 PM PDT
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Subject: MAKE Magazine - How science speeds the counting of 40
million votes
How science speeds the counting of 40 million votes
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/how_science_spe.html
It's voting season! Here's a look at how votes were counted from
Popular Science 1940 -
"HUMMING over wires from every corner of the nation, election
returns in a few days will bring the answer to the question of
America's 40,000,000 voters: Who's elected ?
Years ago, many days would pass before positive results of a
Presidential election were known. Today it is a matter of hours and
minutes. To make this possible, a scientific network of
communication machines--teletypes, telephones, telegraph, and
radio--manned by an army of workers, has been recruited and
promises the earliest election returns in history. But nothing will
aid the vote gatherers more than the voting machines that this year
number 35,000 in twenty-two states.
First used around the turn of the century, the voting machine, by
reason of its speed, accuracy, and honesty, has come up in
popularity until this year it will tabulate nearly a third of the
votes cast.
So you may see how modern high-speed machines count the votes,
Popular Science selected a typical Mr. and Mrs. America and, in the
series of pictures that follows, starts you around the clock with
them on Election Day and shows you how they may well know on the
same night "who's elected!" " - Link.
The full article is at http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/10/23/how-
science-speeds-the-counting-of-40000000-votes/
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