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Examples of voting machine in a Sentence
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Another new law created a felony offense for tampering with a voting machine or vote tally system.
—Victor Hagan, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
Monday's decision was the latest in a run of legal and financial setbacks for Lindell, who is being sued for defamation by two voting machine companies.
—Steve Karnowski, Quartz, 16 Apr. 2024
Thanks to his allegations of election fraud, Lindell is the subject of a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems and a separate defamation lawsuit filed by another voting machine company, Smartmatic.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
And in a rare moment, a Democrat managed to pass language unanimously on this issue, too ― breaking the voting machine in the process ― seeking to investigate the source of the problem.
—Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 1 Mar. 2024
Fox News is trying to fight off the defamation lawsuit from Smartmatic by challenging the voting machine company’s damages claim.
—Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2024
Fox last April agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 election on shows by Dobbs and other hosts.
—Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
Dominion and another voting machine company, Smartmatic, have separate lawsuits pending against media companies, Giuliani, former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and others.
—Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
In April, Fox News agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems almost $780 million to settle a lawsuit claiming that the network damaged the voting machine company’s reputation by peddling false claims that its equipment switched votes from Trump to Biden.
—Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
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“Voting machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/voting%20machine. Accessed 13 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
voting machine
noun
: a mechanical device for recording and counting votes cast in an election
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