In 1935 IBM landed a contract to tabulate employment for the Social Security system and put those dusty punch-card machines to work.
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The commission, for example, does not endorse junking all punchcard ballot machines, even those caused considerable confusion and headaches in Florida.
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Lots of middle-class liberals came from as far away as California and New York to show first-time voters how to use punch-card machines, and to keep an eye open for any signs of voter intimidation.