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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computerized voting system provided tentative results on the night of the election, about four days earlier than the past system of punch card-ballots and lengthy hand-counts...
Scan sheets, similar to those used for standardized tests, replaced the old punch-card ballots. The sheets were distributed at polling stations for voters to use, by ranking their choices in numerical order...
Each ballot was then scanned into a memory card using Accu-Vote scanners sold to the city by LHS Associates Inc. of Methuen, Mass. Once all ballots were scanned, memory cards and scanners were delivered by pollsters to the Senior Center. The first delivery occurred at 9:20 p.m., about 35 minutes behind schedule...
...Senior Center, John Silvestro, president of LHS, entered memory-card information into a computer running the UNIX operating system. Silvestro said the Election Commission had anticipated entering the ballot information sooner, but transit delays between polling stations and the center resulted in the delay...
...software has fairly simple hard ware requirements: you need a Pentium-133 or faster with at least 32 megabytes of RAM and an approved sound card. A headset microphone is provided with the bundle...