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A typical procedure for using these devices includes printing a “zero tape” before starting them. A company that made these devices was successfully sued by the Online Policy Group ISP after sending DMCA takedowns to Swarthmore students that hosted embarrassing leaked e-mails. The behavior of these devices can be verified with a risk-limiting audit. In 2017, a “Village” that successfully breached around 30 models of these devices was introduced at (*) DEF CON and widely reported in the media. The two main kinds of these devices are direct-recording electronic, which uses a touchscreen, and optical scan, which uses paper. Two major manufacturers of these (-5[1])devices, Smartmatic (10[1])and Dominion, (10[2])both filed billion dollar lawsuits against (10[1])Fox News. For 10 points, name these electronic devices that many Republicans made false claims about after the 2020 election. ■END■

ANSWER: electronic voting machines [accept ballot counting machines or equivalents; accept election machines before “election”; prompt on “scanners”]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Earthflax GeologybuzzerMacro EditorsEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins102-5
Jerry VinokurovEight Megabytes And Constantly SwappingWe Bought a Complexity Zoo Story10410
Seth EbnerDianetics for Diabeticsplaying emacs while my parents are arguing10610
Matt Jacksonscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)a neural-net processor; a thinking machine10610
Rob CarsonEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial SinsMacro Editors11210