How to Use voting machine in a Sentence

voting machine

noun
  • That was the price tag of a Michigan voting machine that wound up for sale on eBay last month.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The false claims came to a halt when the station was sued by two voting machine companies.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2022
  • As part of a 2010 settlement in that case, the state promised not to connect any voting machine to the Internet.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 June 2020
  • But a voting machine snafu at the Latimer Lane School in Simsbury delayed the count.
    Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The recent uptick in stock price demonstrates what Benjamin Graham first shared: in the short run, the stock market is a voting machine.
    Chris Westfall, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The subpoena to the group is dated Dec. 28, the same day Gableman sought records from two out-of-state voting machine companies.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2022
  • So Bloomberg, in addition to his advertising avalanche, has revved up another kind of get-out-the-vote machine in the Lone Star State.
    Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2020
  • In New Orleans East, cars were backed up for blocks in the morning waiting to turn in to the voting machine warehouse that serves as an early voting site.
    Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • The president's reelection campaign is hoping the Iowa caucuses serve as a dry run for its get-out-the-vote machine in fall 2020.
    Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2020
  • That design looked a lot like a typical voting machine.
    Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • He was paid off by a voting machine company, according to one false claim that went viral this week.
    David Klepper, ajc, 18 June 2022
  • Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, said that in the short-term the stock market is like a voting machine but in the long-term is a weighing machine.
    Chuck Jones, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Whether using a voting machine or filling out a scannable form, US voters cast their ballots at the polls in privacy booths.
    WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Indeed, the voting machine issue didn’t stop people at those polls from voting.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The voter inserts the ballot into an ES&S voting machine and selects their choices via touch screen.
    Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Some states use paperless voting machines or touch-screen devices that mark ballots for voters and print them out.
    Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Specht also claimed the Dominion voting machine manual tells workers how to change the vote.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Each of the drives is matched to a single voting machine, according to the Inquirer, and inserting the wrong device will result in an error.
    Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The combination of lines and black boxes unique to each election tells a voting machine how to scan an official ballot.
    Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • When all votes have been tallied in a precinct, an election worker prints a readout from a voting machine that shows the unofficial tally.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The extent of our relationship is this: In 2009, Smartmatic licensed the use of a Dominion voting machine for use in the Philippines.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2020
  • At some points, the wait to get inside was more than two hours, and now that officials know there is demand, a fourth voting machine will be in operation on Friday.
    TheWeek, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Adding to the drama that year, some ballots in the district had already undergone a hand count on Election Day because residue from a Tootsie Roll had messed with a voting machine.
    Matt Stout, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Richard Patton, a 31-year-old from Pueblo, has been charged with tampering with a voting machine — a class 5 felony under state law — and cybercrime, which is a misdemeanor.
    Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Garfield Park is now open with vote times under an hour after morning delays because the location did not have voting machine keys.
    Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2020
  • This time, Adomian’s Lindell was using a blowtorch on a Redbox, which he was convinced was a voting machine.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2021
  • On Tuesday, all votes cast in person are final except in the case of a mechanical failure in a voting machine, Dennis said.
    Dominic Massa, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Pitts has some big ideas, in addition to fixing the specific voting machine problems that occurred in June, to avoid facing more challenges with the mail system.
    Laura Bassett, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • If a memory card gets stuck in a voting machine or if traffic snarls near the county board of elections, results will be delayed, Ockerman said.
    Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2020
  • This would not be a problem if the voting machine companies were more transparent in how this operation works.
    Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2023

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