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The Republicans argue that voting machines are more reliable than humans and that no ballot should count if it doesn't register in a machine tabulation.
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Neither man created a machine to register new voters and support new candidates, let alone hand out patronage jobs.
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This allows the machine to accurately register the movement of individual limbs, for example, of its arms, and thus to learn what body parts it has just moved.
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This task is so complicated that it requires an ISstaff member to register each end-user machine, says James Mascaro, network architect for Xcelerate, an e-business consultancy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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Of the 25 million small businesses in the United States, only a small percentage are in retail with a brick-and-mortar presence and therefore equipped with a cash register and credit-card machine.
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Welfare and food stamps are issued on cards, which can be downloaded at the register or through an automatic teller machine.
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With the right app, an iPhone could track the sun, sync shopping lists, be a drum machine, take restaurant reservations, be a cash register.
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Both parties have to register their fingerprints using a biometric scanner that's plugged into the washing machine, which will only work if it scans a different finger than the one used before (you could also trick the machine and use two of your own fingers when you first set things up, but you'd only be fooling yourself right?).
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Voting will be electronic - one machine will identify voters' fingerprints, and a second will recognise identity card numbers and register the vote anonymously.
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