How to Use voting machine in a Sentence

voting machine

noun
  • The false claims came to a halt when the station was sued by two voting machine companies.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2022
  • That was the price tag of a Michigan voting machine that wound up for sale on eBay last month.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Indeed, the voting machine issue didn’t stop people at those polls from voting.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • He was paid off by a voting machine company, according to one false claim that went viral this week.
    — David Klepper, ajc, 18 June 2022
  • His coalition also has a formidable get-out-the-vote machine.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 20 May 2018
  • Some states use paperless voting machines or touch-screen devices that mark ballots for voters and print them out.
    — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Ditto for his union support, whose legion of door-knockers couldn’t overcome other get-out-the-vote machines.
    — Greg Bluestein, ajc, 8 Nov. 2017
  • All that remains today are the patent filings and drawings of what those voting machines should look like, with perhaps one exception.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian, 26 June 2019
  • Unlike voting machines in this state, WisVote can be accessed through the internet.
    — Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The combination of lines and black boxes unique to each election tells a voting machine how to scan an official ballot.
    — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • This would not be a problem if the voting machine companies were more transparent in how this operation works.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 8 May 2023
  • Specht also claimed the Dominion voting machine manual tells workers how to change the vote.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2021
  • When all votes have been tallied in a precinct, an election worker prints a readout from a voting machine that shows the unofficial tally.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Garfield Park is now open with vote times under an hour after morning delays because the location did not have voting machine keys.
    — Elizabeth Depompei, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Despite a 2-2 split in this election test run, the voting machine’s results showed Arnold won 3-1.
    — Mark Niesse, ajc, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Whether using a voting machine or filling out a scannable form, US voters cast their ballots at the polls in privacy booths.
    — WIRED, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The board is deciding whether voting machines offered by three companies will be cleared for sale to the state’s 100 counties for years to come.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
  • But a voting machine snafu at the Latimer Lane School in Simsbury delayed the count.
    — Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • Most candidates take their campaign for the endorsement seriously because the prize is the party's get-out-the-vote machine.
    — Mark Naymik, cleveland.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • As part of a 2010 settlement in that case, the state promised not to connect any voting machine to the Internet.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 June 2020
  • If a memory card gets stuck in a voting machine or if traffic snarls near the county board of elections, results will be delayed, Ockerman said.
    — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2020
  • At some points, the wait to get inside was more than two hours, and now that officials know there is demand, a fourth voting machine will be in operation on Friday.
    — TheWeek, 25 Sep. 2020
  • There has been some progress on voting machine security since the 2016 US elections.
    — Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The voter inserts the ballot into an ES&S voting machine and selects their choices via touch screen.
    — Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Each of the drives is matched to a single voting machine, according to the Inquirer, and inserting the wrong device will result in an error.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, said that in the short-term the stock market is like a voting machine but in the long-term is a weighing machine.
    — Chuck Jones, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • The group has been involved in efforts to force states to require that all voting machines provide a paper trail so the accuracy of the machine counts can be hand-checked if necessary.
    — John Wildermuth, SFChronicle.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • On Tuesday, all votes cast in person are final except in the case of a mechanical failure in a voting machine, Dennis said.
    — Dominic Massa, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In New Orleans East, cars were backed up for blocks in the morning waiting to turn in to the voting machine warehouse that serves as an early voting site.
    — Faimon Roberts, NOLA.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Pitts has some big ideas, in addition to fixing the specific voting machine problems that occurred in June, to avoid facing more challenges with the mail system.
    — Laura Bassett, refinery29.com, 19 Aug. 2020

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