Last updated on:
3/3/2009 |
Author: ProCon.org
Joseph P. Harris, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Inventor of the Punchcard Voting System
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Do Electronic Voting Machines Improve the Voting Process?"
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Position not found as of Feb. 13, 2008
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Organizations/VIPs/Others
Individuals and organizations that do not fit into the other star categories. - Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Sells Harris Votomatic, Inc. to IBM, 1965
- Patents the Votomatic punchcard voting system (U.S. Patent 3,201,038), which eventually becomes the most popular type of punchcard voting system used in the United States, 1965
- Forms Harris Votomatic, Inc. to manufacture and sell his punchcard voting system, 1964
- With the help of engineer William Rouverol develops a voting system that employs a stylus to punch out the desired vote selection on a pre-scored card and uses a computer to tabulate the votes. This system is the manifestation of an idea he originally had in the 1930s, 1964
- Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1941-1963
- Director of Research, U.S. President’s Committee on Administration Management
- Established the Joseph P. and Polly Harris Trust at the Institute for Government Studies at University of California, Berkeley
- U.S. Army Air Service during World War I
- Education:
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- PhD, Political Science, University of Chicago
- BA, Political Science, University of Kansas
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- Died on 1985