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How did the voting machine come to the museum?

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The company of record historically made, made these machines has— They still have a collection of them and they parted with two of them, gave them to the museum in the early 1960s and the one that we'll look at or that we have— we've put on exhibit is the one that I described with the curtain and the unifying action of the levers and that sort of thing, but it actually came from the company that had made it and had kept it as part of its business collection for all these years in Rochester, New York.

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