DRE voting machine

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A DRE voting machine, or direct-recording electronic voting machine, records votes by means of a ballot display provided with mechanical or electro-optical components that can be activated by the voter. These are typically buttons or a touchscreen; and they process data using a computer program to record voting data and ballot images in memory components. After the election, it produces a tabulation of the voting data stored in a removable memory component and as printed copy. The system may also provide a means for transmitting individual ballots or vote totals to a central location for consolidating and reporting results from precincts at the central location. The device started to be massively used in 1996 in Brazil, where, since 2000, 100% of the elections voting system is carried out using stand-alone electronic voting machines that are not connected to the Internet. In 2004, 28.9% of the registered voters in the United States used some type of direct recording electronic voting system...

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