VOTING MACHINE

An electrically operated voting system having a plurality of voting machine stations and a central vote accumulating register. The voting machine and register are of modular construction and may be readily programmed to satisfy the requirements of general, open and closed primary, and other type elections. Each voting machine includes a number of interlock circuits which prevent a voter from selecting a number of condidates in excess of that permitted; and also prevent a voter from casting more than one vote for a respective candidate; yet permit that a voter may reconsider and cancel a selection already made and vote for another candidate of his choice. Additionally, each machine is substantially fail-safe in that it may not normally continue to operate should a malfunction occur, and, when a malfunction occurs, the election official is immediately made aware of it and no votes already cast and sought to be registered by a voter will be lost.