Section of the online exhibit Vote: The Machinery of Democracy focused on gear and lever voting, which was meant to ensure the confidentiality and efficiency of the election process. Shows the ...
Mechanical devices started to replace hand-marked paper ballots in the late 1800s, and the use of the pointer/punch card system to record votes dates to 1892. Some form of this method remains in use ...
Since the United States democracy operates in such a way that every citizen of 18 years and older has the right to cast a vote, one would imagine that every citizen’s vote would have the right be ...