He set up a one-man lab in Boston, where he invented and patented an electric vote-counting machine.

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"Imagine a bank teller who's working with cash-counting machine in the basement of the bank, " Negrusz said.

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The canvassing board there reverted to election night tallies after discovering a ballot-counting machine had malfunctioned during the recount.

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For many, there first experience with Coinstar would have been in your local grocery store where there was a coin counting machine sitting in customer service or right next to the bagged ice machine.

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In this setting, moreover, finance takes on a surprisingly artistic quality whether it be the colourful ornateness of 19th-century railway bonds or design classics such as the Quotron trading terminal or much older Brunsviga-Midget System Trinks counting machine.

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In Palm Beach and Broward Counties, Harris effectively shut down attempt to conduct manual recount the votes there when her office issued a ruling that "a counting error" means that a machine fails to read a properly marked ballot.

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Ballot-box hanky-panky is also much harder in an age of machine voting (the controversy in 2000 was not over intentional fraud, but counting rules and ballot design).

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