She cautioned against a rush to get rid of the punch-card machines.

In those pre-electronic computer days, mechanization meant using analog devices or punch-card machines.

Rescue California argued that there was no evidence that punch-card machines have a higher rate of error than other forms of voting.

After the 2000 election, there was a rush to eliminate the punch-card machines that produced the infamous hanging chads.

Furthermore, the number of undervotes correlates with how well the punch-card machines are maintained, and not with factors such as race or socioeconomic status.

It adds that punch-card machines "are used disproportionately" in counties with substantial numbers of blacks and other minorities.

The plaintiffs request an injunction prohibiting the use of punch-card machines in future elections.

We demonstrated, first, that there were a large number of ballots that were not counted by the punch-card machines.

Thus, every election with punch-card machines has some disqualified ballots.

As now-discredited punch-card machines are being abandoned, there has been a shift to electronic voting machines with serious reliability problems of their own.