Note that you're reinventing the Votomatic voting machine [1] which is used to punch holes in a standard-sized IBM punched card. It was invented in 1963 and has

Note that you're reinventing the Votomatic voting machine [1] which is used to punch holes in a standard-sized IBM punched card. It was invented in 1963 and has been used in multiple US elections. I like IBM punched card equipment as much as anyone [2], but I feel obligated to point out that punched-card voting led to big problems in the 2000 election when ballots in Florida had "hanging chad" and the election ended up being decided by the Supreme Court. (I wonder what fraction of HN readers remember this, and what fraction consider this ancient history.) [1] http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/resources_votomatic.html http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/resources_votomatic.html [2] http://www.righto.com/2016/05/inside-card-sorters-1920s-data.html http://www.righto.com/2016/05/inside-card-sorters-1920s-data...