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====Analog computers==== Lenna Winslow's 1910 voting machine was designed to offer all the questions on the ballot to men and only some to women because women often had [[partial suffrage]], e.g. being allowed to vote on issues but not candidates. The machine had two doors, one marked "Gents" and the other marked "Ladies". The door used to enter the voting booth would activate a series of levers and switches to display the full ballot for men and the partial ballot for women.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Voting Machine That Displayed Different Ballots Based on Your Sex|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/voting-machine-displayed-different-ballots-based-sex-180972434/|last=Kindy|first=David|date=June 26, 2019|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en|access-date=May 26, 2020|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101141144/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/voting-machine-displayed-different-ballots-based-sex-180972434/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>Lenna Winslow, {{US patent|963105|U.S. patent 963,105}}, which drew from her earlier voting machine designs.<!-- with thanks to a slide in the Smithsonian's https://museum.archives.gov/rightfully-hers exhibit which I can't link directly to--></ref>
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