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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 01, 1985
William H Carson, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Carson Manufacturing Company, Inc., Indianapolis, IN (US);
Abstract
A portable, self-contained, programmable electronic voting machine includes a motor-driven scroll mechanism carrying a plurality of printed ballot sheets, the scroll mechanism presenting to a voter, in a controlled manner, only a preselected portion of the ballot sheets at any one time. Each selected portion of the ballot sheets is viewed by a voter through a window panel along opposite vertical edges of which extend single columns of push-button switches positioned next to voter selections on the portion of the ballot sheets then being viewed. A voter depresses appropriate push-button switches to make vote selections. The voting selection process is repeated as the voter, by actuating the scroll mechanism, selects other portions of the ballot sheets. A voter then casts his vote using a separate vote casting switch. A remote judge's control determines whether all portions of the ballot sheets can be presented to a voter, or only selected portions depending, for example, on the voting party declared by the voter. A motor-driven shutter mechanism allows access to a motor-indexed paper tape upon which a voter can 'write-in' a vote when appropriate. An audit printer provides hard copy back-up for electronically stored vote tally information.