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  2. Electronic voting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1964: The Norden-Coleman optical scan voting system, the first such system to see actual use, was adopted for use in Orange County, California. [217] 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. [218]

  3. Ranked voting - Wikipedia

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    Plurality voting is the most common voting system, and has been in widespread use since the earliest democracies.As plurality voting has exhibited weaknesses from its start, especially as soon as a third party joins the race, some individuals turned to transferable votes (facilitated by contingent ranked ballots) to reduce the incidence of wasted votes and unrepresentative election results.

  4. Electronic voting - Wikipedia

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    A public network DRE voting system is an election system that uses electronic ballots and transmits vote data from the polling place to another location over a public network. [37] Vote data may be transmitted as individual ballots as they are cast, periodically as batches of ballots throughout the election day, or as one batch at the close of ...

  5. DRE voting machine - Wikipedia

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    The device started to be massively used in 1996 in Brazil where 100% of the elections voting system is carried out using machines. In 2004, 28.9% of the registered voters in the United States used some type of direct recording electronic voting system, up from 7.7% in 1996.

  6. Electronic voting machine - Wikipedia

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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.

  7. Ballot error shuts down Montana online absentee voting system

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    The Electronic Absentee System allows eligible voters to cast their ballot online beginning 45 days before the federal election, which for the general Election Day on Nov. 5, was Friday, Sept. 20.

  8. Elections in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A number of voting methods are used within the various jurisdictions in the United States, the most common of which is the first-past-the-post system, where the highest-polling candidate wins the election. [5] Under this system, a candidate who achieves a plurality (that is, the most) of vote wins.

  9. Voting system (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A voting system is a set of rules for translating sets of preferences as expressed in an election into actual ... Diversity combining system used in two-way radio ...