Jacob H. Myers - Voting Machines

Name:	Jacob H. Myers
Title:	Inventor of the Mechanical Lever Voting Machine
Position:	None Found to the question "Do electronic voting machines improve the voting process?"
Reasoning:	No position found as of Feb. 13, 2008
Theoretical Expertise Ranking:	Organizations/VIPs/Others Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories.
Involvement and Affiliations:	Organizes Automatic Voting Machines Corporation (AVM), one of two companies that manufactured all the mechanical lever voting machines used in the United States , 1895 Patents the first mechanical lever voting machine, the Myers Automatic Booth (U.S. Patent 415,549 502KB), 1889 Patents a type of mechanical voting machine that relies on tokens being deposited into slots. This machine (U.S. Patent 415,548) is a variation to the Myers Automatic Booth but never became commercially successful, 1889
Education:	None found
Contact Info:	Phone: None found Fax: None found E-Mail: None found Website: None found
Select Publications:	"Voting-Machine," mechanical lever voting machine, U.S. Patent 415,549, Nov. 19, 1889 "Voting-Machine," token-operated voting machine, U.S. Patent 415,548, Nov. 19, 1889
Other:	Deceased