| (a) Punch card ballot (without ballot stub) used in a Votomatic machine | |
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| (b) Illustration of a section of a punch card ballot. When a vote is recorded, the perforated rectangle (with a dot) is punched out of the card (as shown for areas # 11 and #48). There is no indication for voters on the ballot regarding which punched hole corresponds to which candidate. |  |
Image Credits: Figure 3a appeared originally in “A Brief Illustrated History of Voting” (http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/pictures/) and is used with the permission of Douglas W. Jones. Figure 3b was made by the author.
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