Machine, Voting

2017.4195.1

Creation Date
2002 – 2008
Materials

Dimensions

19 cm. H x 49 cm. W x 57 cm. L Item (Overall)

Description
Electric voting maching. Ballot tabulator. It was used in Ben Wade Township from 2002 for three elections. Ben Wade Township recieved a grant in 2001 for the tabulator and recieved it in 2002. Counting the 120-140 township votes by hand ususally took two or more hours to complete. With the tabulator, all the paperwork was done in 20 minutes. 6 years later, the State of Minnesota provided funds for new tabulators state-wide, and this machine was made obsolete.

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