Portable voting booth
OwnerJohn E. Ahmanninventor
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Abstract
A portable self-contained voting booth has improved features of compactness, lightness of weight, leg-holding stability, durability and convenience in use. Its carrying case includes interior corner members that both provide leg sockets for receiving legs from below and also serve to receive and hold down a vote recorder or board/carrier to which a vote record system may be secured. The unit is very quickly set up and produces a sturdy free-standing voting booth. The booth may also be used for paper ballot voting by simply removing the vote recorder or other voting system carrier from the booth.
Claims10
In a portable, self-contained voting booth apparatus having a foldable carrying case having an upper section hinged to a lower section, four multiple-section take-apart legs, a pair of side shields and a vote recorder to which may be secured a punch card type vote registering device, the improvement comprising:
- four corner members mounted at the front and rear interior corners of the lower section of the carrying case, each having a leg socket oriented downwardly to receive and grip a leg inserted into the socket from below, through the bottom of the lower section, each corner member also including a horizontal flange positioned to receive an edge of the vote recorder thereunder to lock the vote recorder in place, the corner members and flanges being spaced so that the vote recorder can be inserted obliquely under one pair of flanges, then swung down into position adjacent to and below the opposite pair of flanges and moved slidingly toward and under said opposite pair to retain the vote recorder down at all corners.
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