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Were there efforts made to teach voters how to use the machine?

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To familiarize people with the kinds of conditions in which they're going to be making a vote, candidates historically would distribute flyers or literature, usually literature that show some kind of a facsimile of it. In other words, they would present a voter with the graphic layout that looked like the inside of a voting machine It's helpful to show that kind of literature juxtaposed with the device that you're going to be actually voting and it can be-- You can use it as kind of campaign promotional literature but it also helps explain the objects that you're seeking to explain, making it better understood.

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Interview with Larry Bird, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, May 31, 2006.