How to Use voting machine in a Sentence

voting machine

noun
  • 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
  • The false claims came to a halt when the station was sued by two voting machine companies.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • But a voting machine snafu at the Latimer Lane School in Simsbury delayed the count.
    Daniela Altimari, courant.com, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The recent uptick in stock price demonstrates what Benjamin Graham first shared: in the short run, the stock market is a voting machine.
    Chris Westfall, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The subpoena to the group is dated Dec. 28, the same day Gableman sought records from two out-of-state voting machine companies.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Jan. 2022
  • So Bloomberg, in addition to his advertising avalanche, has revved up another kind of get-out-the-vote machine in the Lone Star State.
    Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • The president's reelection campaign is hoping the Iowa caucuses serve as a dry run for its get-out-the-vote machine in fall 2020.
    Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Unlike voting machines in this state, WisVote can be accessed through the internet.
    Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • That design looked a lot like a typical voting machine.
    Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • There has been some progress on voting machine security since the 2016 US elections.
    Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Indeed, the voting machine issue didn’t stop people at those polls from voting.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2022
  • His coalition also has a formidable get-out-the-vote machine.
    Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 20 May 2018
  • The voter inserts the ballot into an ES&S voting machine and selects their choices via touch screen.
    Dallas News, 20 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Specht also claimed the Dominion voting machine manual tells workers how to change the vote.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The extent of our relationship is this: In 2009, Smartmatic licensed the use of a Dominion voting machine for use in the Philippines.
    Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2020
  • And in a rare moment, a Democrat managed to pass language unanimously on this issue, too ― breaking the voting machine in the process ― seeking to investigate the source of the problem.
    Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2024
  • Another new law created a felony offense for tampering with a voting machine or vote tally system.
    Victor Hagan, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024

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