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That procedure dates to the days of paper punch-card ballots, which were counted and tabulated at the board's headquarters.

D.C. elections board, scolded by politicians, defends counting pace, cites crushing pressures 2010

Back when computering was a punch-card/mainframe endeavor I took a course called “Computer Science for Liberal Arts Majors” because it was 95% women.

Waldo Jaquith - You let one openly gay man into the legislature… 2008

That procedure dates to the days of paper punch-card ballots, which were counted and tabulated at the board's headquarters.

D.C. elections board, scolded by politicians, defends counting pace, cites crushing pressures 2010

And Florida was using a system (punch-card ballots) with a higher margin of error.

Is Coleman Aiming for a Do-Over Election? 2010

Aiken went back to the drawing board and came up with a proposal that convinced IBM, whose big product at the time was a punch-card processor.

Aug. 7, 1944: Still a Few Bugs in the System | Disinformation 2008

That procedure dates to the days of paper punch-card ballots, which were counted and tabulated at the board's headquarters.

D.C. elections board defends pace of count 2010

Maybe they should go back to those little punch-card machines?

A Call For Dumping Diebold Machines — From A Republican 2009

Saving the ballots preserves evidence for the groups 'allegations that some punch-card ballots may have been pre-punched, rendering them invalid if punched again, and that some absentee ballots in Republican-leaning counties were counted twice, Arnebeck said.

In New Letter, Clinton's Lawyers Demand ABC Yank Film 2009

The outdated punch-card voting meant that the original machine count discounted every vote where the punch didn't dislocate all 4 corners of the hole, when the intention of the voter was very clear to a hand-recounter.

Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries? 2009

Lower courts have shied away from directing states to adopt uniform election administration rules, even in a California case where it was undeniable that some voters would have to use inferior punch-card machines.

Nicholas Stephanopoulos: Resurrecting Bush v. Gore 2009