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

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Glossary Term :  Direct Record Electronic (DRE) Voting System_b
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Comment :  -- Comment: A matter of grammar and usage. When an adjective modifies a noun, and the composite is used as an adjective, the phrase should be hyphenated, so it is a direct-recording voting machine. In the case of DRE voting machines, one could write direct-recording-electronic voting machine or direct-recording electronic voting machine. The former treats direct-recording-electronic as the adjective phrase, while the latter treats electronic voting machine as the noun phrase being modified by the adjective direct-recording. English is so much fun.