Jacob H. Myers - Voting Machines - ProCon.org

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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:

No position found as of Feb. 13, 2008

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 , 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

Other:

Deceased