Tabulator used in a sentence

Tabulator in a sentence as a noun

So you could feed all the ballot images into your own tabulator software.

They've been around long enough to know what's up. it's gotta be punch-cards for the hollerith tabulator.

However some of the larger ones like Dallas use a DRE machine combined with a tabulator instead.

That wouldn't be too bad, except this tabulator is before the vacuum tube generation.

In every case I have ever seen, tabulators are never connected to the internet.

Cross checking a ballot tabulator for accuracy is easy.

The record for obsolete computing probably goes to Sparkler Filters, which still uses an IBM 402 tabulator from 1948 for their accounting.

Digital records kept by precinct tabulators are audited using the paper ballots.

After marking the ballot, the ballot is inserted into the tabulator and the permit is retained in a file with the tabulator.

Precinct tabulators generally sound an alert and return the ballot to the voter if there are problems tabulating it.

In some cases this is a direct network connection but more often it's a memory card that's moved from the election management system to the tabulator.

My understanding is city hall has a ballot tabulator for every precinct mail-in, and as they process mail they drop them in the appropriate machine.

This allows the significant advantages of precinct tabulators while ensuring the ability to audit the election by hand.

In the case of perhaps the most popular precinct tabulator, ImageCase, the ballot marker is the same machine as the tabulator to save space and equipment maintenance.

Jurisdictions which centrally count ballots or use precinct tabulators can offer voters with accessibility needs a "ballot marker" which they insert their ballot into.

Common solution with existing precinct tabulators: each voter is issued both an anonymous ballot and a permit with identifying information.

Tampering with individual tabulators is relatively easily discovered by auditing the ballots using a different machine, which is the normal recount process in this jurisdiction.

Eckert, at Columbia University, built some incredible semi-programmable kludges out of IBM tabulator equipment.

> Voatz’s website states that “a paper ballot is generated on election night” and is tallied “using the standard counting process at each participating county.” What that means is the voter’s vote is sent to the county clerk staff as a PDF, and the county clerk staff prints it out and puts it into the scanning tabulator.

Precinct tabulators include multiple safeguards against tampering which are far from perfect but reasonably effective against most common attacks - ultimately the safeguard against tampering is the same as it always has been, that the ballot box must be kept under watch of sworn election officials to protect the integrity of the paper ballots.