You went to the table for your election district, signed in, went to a big old steel mechanical voting machine made in Jamestown, New York, pulled a big lever, set small levers for all the candidates you wanted, pulled the big lever back, and were done.

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No voting machine in the world, being mechanical that is operated by the human hand, can achieve the accuracy we are demanding of it in this election.

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It functions as a wonderful mix of the mechanical and the organic, as a steady drum machine and languid pedal steel ring out side by side.

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Indeed, when reformers made it illegal to sell gin without a license, gin sellers responded with the "puss and mew, " a bit of mechanical fakery masquerading as an 18th-century vending machine.

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Scary yes but inevitable because mechanical technology, muscle power, has barely budged while machine brain power has rocketed ahead, leaving the integration of the two grossly underexploited.

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"I'm not a mechanical engineer, but I saw a way to increase output of the machine by about 50%, " he says.

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