Editing DRE voting machine (section)

==History==
[[File:Brazilian DRE voting machine for 2022 elections.jpg|thumb|left|[[Brazil]]ian DRE voting machines]]
The idea of voting by push button with electrical technology used to total the votes dates back to the 19th century when Frank Wood of Boston was granted a patent on a direct-recording electrical voting machine.<ref>Frank S. Wood, Electric voting-machine, {{US patent|616174}}, Granted Dec. 20, 1898.</ref> ([[Thomas Edison]]'s electrical voting system patent is sometimes cited in this regard, but it was intended for tallying roll-call votes in legislative chambers; as such, it is more like an [[audience response]] system.) The idea of electrical voting was pursued with much more vigor in the 20th century. Numerous patents were filed in the 1960s, many of them by AVM Corporation (the former Automatic Voting Machine Corporation), the company that had a near monopoly on mechanical [[voting machine]] at the time.<ref>Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons, Broken Ballots, CSLI Publications, 2012; see Section 5.1, pages 93-95.</ref>

The first direct-recording electronic voting machine to be used in a government election was the Video Voter. This was developed by the Frank Thornber Company in Chicago.<ref>Richard H. McKay, William R. Smith, and Herman Deutsch, Voting system, {{US Patent|4025757}}, granted May 24, 1977.</ref><ref>Richard H. McKay, Paul G. Ziebold, James D. Kirby, Douglas R. Hetzel, and James U. Snydacker, Electronic voting machine, {{US Patent|3793505}}, granted Feb. 19, 1974.</ref> The Video Voter saw its first trial use in 1974 near [[Chicago, Illinois]], and remained in use until 1980.<ref>Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons, Broken Ballots, CSLI Publications, 2012; see Section 5.2, page 96.</ref>

Microvote and [[Shoup Voting Machine Corporation]] entered the market in the mid 1980s with the MV-464 and the Shouptronic.<ref>William H. Carson, Electronic Voting Machine, {{US patent|4649264}}, granted Mar. 10, 1987.</ref><ref>Robert J. Boram, Electronic voting machine and system, {{US patent|4641240}}, granted Feb. 3, 1987.</ref> Both of these machines saw widespread use; over 11,000 Shouptronic machines had been sold by 1993. In the years that followed, the rights to the Shouptronic were transferred to Guardian Voting and then to Danaher Controls, which sold it as the ELECTronic 1242.<ref>Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons, Broken Ballots, CSLI Publications, 2012; see Sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.2, pages 96-99.</ref>
[[Image:Jellybuttons.jpg|right|thumb|A Hart eSlate DRE voting machine with jelly buttons for people with manual dexterity disabilities]]