Huh? The punch card system was in effect for over 100 years.
"The idea of voting by punching holes on paper or cards originated in the 1890s[SUP]
[7][/SUP] and inventors continued to explore this in the years that followed.[SUP]
[8][/SUP] The first major success for punched-card voting came in 1965, with Joseph P. Harris' development of the Votomatic punched-card system.[SUP]
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[11][/SUP] This was based on IBM's
Port-A-Punch technology. Harris licenced the Votomatic to IBM[SUP]
[12][/SUP] William Rouverol built the prototype system.
The Votomatic system was very successful. By the 1996 Presidential election, some variation of the punched card system was used by 37.3% of registered voters in the United States.[SUP]
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Votomatic style systems and punched cards received considerable notoriety in 2000 when their uneven use in Florida was alleged to have
affected the outcome of the U.S. presidential election.