Jacob H. Myers Biography
- Title:
- Inventor of the Mechanical Lever Voting Machine
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Feb. 13, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- 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
, 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:
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- None found
- Other:
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- Deceased