In fact industrial giant General Electric uses one such backup service for all of its hundreds of thousands of user workstations.

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For this year's general election, Nevada is the only state where virtually every voting machine has a paper backup that could aid in a machine malfunction, an audit or a recount.

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General Atomics, the manufacturer of the Predator and the Reaper, argues that its later models have more backup systems to prevent those momentary losses of control.

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