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In the viral video, a voter in Laurel County, Kentucky, appears to be attempting to tap on Donald Trump's name on a touchscreen voting machine, which selected the option for Kamala Harris.
—Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Voters in Georgia make their selections on a touchscreen voting machine that then prints out a paper ballot that includes a human-readable list of the voter’s choices as well as a QR code that is read by a scanner to tally the votes.
—Kate Brumback, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
During the 2022 midterms, a poll watcher in North Carolina stood between a voter and a voting machine; in Texas, an armed poll watcher trailed election officials to their ballot-counting location.
—Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024
In 2023, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $787 million to avoid a trial in a defamation lawsuit the voting machine company brought against the network for lies told about their company switching ballots.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2024
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First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
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“Voting machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voting%20machine. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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voting machine
noun
: a mechanical device for recording and counting votes cast in an election
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