recent U.S. names for special types of voting-machines.
1895. Richmond Enquirer, 16 Feb., 2/1. A beautiful and useful instrument, styled ‘The Congressional Register and Votometer,’ has just been invented…, the design of which is take the ayes and noes, divisions, and other votes of the two Houses of Congress.
1895. Detroit Free Press, 9 Feb., 5/2. It [a voting machine] is called the American votograph, and works on the keyboard principle. There is a row of keys for each party, and a key for each candidate.
