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What's wrong with the lever machine. There's a label with each candidate's name and a lever below it. You flip the lever to select the candidate. Simple. Even better, if you screw up, you flip the lever back, since nothing takes effect until you open the curtain with the big lever, instead of having to ask for a new ballot.


They're prone to jamming. Once upon a time, in the Helms/Gantt Senate race, Durham was using them. They had to keep the polls open way late (10:00 or 11:00) because they were jamming all over town. Something to do with voting split tickets and an independent county commissioner.

Due to the visibility of the race, it got a lot of national air play.

-jk