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Name :   Robert Kibrick
Organization :   N/A
Post Date :   9/27/2005

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Glossary Term :  Touch Screen Voting Machine
Definition :  
Comment :  Touch Screen Voting Machine: Machine that utilizes a computer screen whereby a voter executes that voter’s choices by touching designated locations on the screen and that then tabulates those choices.  
Association: voting  
Source: ME Statutes  

Doesn’t such a machine also need to record an electronic ballot image? Wouldn’t it make more sense to define a touch screen voting machine as a specific instance of a DRE, i.e., one that uses touch screen sensor for user input (at least by non-disabled voters)?