1. MAC is an Acronym for Money Access Center. The machine is redundant as it is in ATM machine.
2. Common term for ATM used in northeastern states and metropolitan areas.
2. Common term for ATM used in northeastern states and metropolitan areas.
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A device that records the choices of voters in an election. It can take several forms:
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1. (Becoming less and less common in the U.S.)
A mechanical device, where the voter flips small levers next to the candidates' names to indicate their choices, then pulls a big lever to record the votes. Very difficult to tamper with.
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2. (Very common in the U.S.)
A direct-recording electronic (DRE) machine. May print vote totals on paper, but there is no way for a voter to verify that his/her votes were accurately recorded.
Unlike mechanical voting machines, DRE machines are EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO FRAUD. In addition to outright tampering with the records, malware can be used to steal a percentage of votes, reassigning them to the rigged candidate. The purported verification mechanisms -- logs, audit trails, "snapshots" of individual voters' choices -- can be manipulated to leave no evidence, corresponding perfectly to the rigged results.
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3. (The way to use technology for elections we can have confidence in)
An electronic machine that lets the voter make choices (preventing overvotes and highlighting undervotes), then PRINTS AN ACTUAL FILLED-OUT PAPER BALLOT, which the voter can review and either discard (and start over) or cast.
THE PAPER BALLOT IS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE VOTE. (Voters could also choose to fill in a blank ballot by hand.)
Ballots can be quickly counted by optical scanning technology. Importantly, ballots can be RECOUNTED, by hand if necessary.
Counts from the voting machines need not be trusted as anything more than quick estimates or "exit polls". This system makes it difficult to commit the large-scale fraud so easy to do invisibly with paperless DRE machines.
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1. (Becoming less and less common in the U.S.)
A mechanical device, where the voter flips small levers next to the candidates' names to indicate their choices, then pulls a big lever to record the votes. Very difficult to tamper with.
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2. (Very common in the U.S.)
A direct-recording electronic (DRE) machine. May print vote totals on paper, but there is no way for a voter to verify that his/her votes were accurately recorded.
Unlike mechanical voting machines, DRE machines are EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO FRAUD. In addition to outright tampering with the records, malware can be used to steal a percentage of votes, reassigning them to the rigged candidate. The purported verification mechanisms -- logs, audit trails, "snapshots" of individual voters' choices -- can be manipulated to leave no evidence, corresponding perfectly to the rigged results.
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3. (The way to use technology for elections we can have confidence in)
An electronic machine that lets the voter make choices (preventing overvotes and highlighting undervotes), then PRINTS AN ACTUAL FILLED-OUT PAPER BALLOT, which the voter can review and either discard (and start over) or cast.
THE PAPER BALLOT IS THE OFFICIAL RECORD OF THE VOTE. (Voters could also choose to fill in a blank ballot by hand.)
Ballots can be quickly counted by optical scanning technology. Importantly, ballots can be RECOUNTED, by hand if necessary.
Counts from the voting machines need not be trusted as anything more than quick estimates or "exit polls". This system makes it difficult to commit the large-scale fraud so easy to do invisibly with paperless DRE machines.
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A number of Diebold electronic voting machines have been in the news, first for criminally incompetent software and database design, leaving vote records wide open to undetectable tampering, more recently for vulnerability to "computer virus" style malware that can spread from machine to machine through the data cards used to collect voting data.
Making such electronic voting machines widespread is the perfect way to lay the groundwork for large-scale, invisible voter fraud.
There's plenty of information on this on the Web. A good place to start: the Coalition for Voting Integrity, www.coalitionforvotingintegrity.org .
Making such electronic voting machines widespread is the perfect way to lay the groundwork for large-scale, invisible voter fraud.
There's plenty of information on this on the Web. A good place to start: the Coalition for Voting Integrity, www.coalitionforvotingintegrity.org .
by Grinning Cat April 18, 2008
Get the voting machine mug.The hyper-spacial entities that inhabit the DMT realm. Seemingly sentient, cheerful, mischievous little beings who love to play and show you their wonderful psychedelic alien machinery. The existence of the machine elves was popularised in the psychedelic community by the teachings of the great lord Terence McKenna (RIP).
Meeting the machine elves is generally regarded as the textbook 'breakthrough' DMT experience. The result of finally getting enough of the elf spice in your system in time.
Meeting the machine elves is generally regarded as the textbook 'breakthrough' DMT experience. The result of finally getting enough of the elf spice in your system in time.
"I exhaled the smoke and laid back with my eyes closed. Moments later I was in this large room made up completely of fractal patterns, and the machine elves were all around me! Finally I broke through."
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Get the machine elves mug.The philosophy that holds all machines as a given and seperate entity. The machine spirit is a whole spirit, yet is only as great as the sum of its parts.
by Samuel Ferrell March 18, 2006
Get the machine spirit mug.Similar to the Milton Bradley game Operation, however this version is more hightech and played with your office copy machine when paper gets jammed in the hot copy machine.
The object of this game is to extract said paper or papers without getting a third degree burn on fingers, wrist, arms, etc.
The object of this game is to extract said paper or papers without getting a third degree burn on fingers, wrist, arms, etc.
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The highest form of tool, given to those who exceed the status of tool,power tool,tool bag, tool box, and Home Depot. Having no mind of there own,following everything and anyone to try and fit in. Said machinery is completley aware of their status but continues to be used.
The highest form of tool, given to those who exceed the status of tool,power tool,tool bag, tool box, and Home Depot. Having no mind of there own,following everything and anyone to try and fit in. Said machinery is completley aware of their status but continues to be used.
i.e Going bag shopping with a girl you have no chance with
and paying
Person #1: You see that guy in The Gap
Person#2: There's some Heavy Machinery over there
and paying
Person #1: You see that guy in The Gap
Person#2: There's some Heavy Machinery over there
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