Punch-type vote recording device

Details Punch-type vote recording device Punch-type vote recording device

1992-06-09

1993-11-09

Gellner, Michael L.

Registers

Voting machines

Recording

G07C 1300

Patent

active

052605507

ABSTRACT:
A punch-type vote recording device for use with a machine-readable non-scored ballot card has a card block mounted in fixed relation to a punch plate and means for biasing the foot of a ballot card against a registration surface on the card block. The arrangement as disclosed eliminates the requirement for high dimensional accuracy in registration pins on the vote recorder and accurately positioned registration apertures in ballot cards. The invention is disclosed in a vote recorder having a slidably received ballot holder comprising a punch plate spaced apart from a guide plate and a card block depending from the guide plate. The punch plate is disclosed as being provided with a series of die openings, each of which has a sharp upturned lip for cooperating with a stylus to shear and cut a precise machine readable hole in the ballot card.

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Patent Application Ser. No. 150,689, Tod Rapp, Feb. 1, 1988.

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