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Name :   Doug Jones
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Post Date :   9/27/2005

Glossary Comments
Glossary Term :  Electric Voting Machine
Definition :  
Comment :  In response to your request for comments on the draft glossary of voting system terminology, I offer the following, picking up with the letter D, having completed A through C in previous comments. As before, in each case, I am quoting the original and then offering an alternative definition.

Electronic Voting Machine: Any system that utilizes an electronic component. Term is generally used to refer to DREs. See also Voting Equipment, Voting System.  

Electronic Voting Machine: A physically distinct component of an electronic voting system that incorporates the electronic vote capture function, for example, a DRE Voting Machines. Some electronic voting systems do not utilize electronic voting machines, for example remote-site Internet voting or optical mark-sense ballot tabulation systems.