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Claim 1

IN AN ELECTRICAL VOTING MACHINE, A PLURALITY OF OPERABLE PARTY VOTE MEMBERS ARRANGED IN A ROW AND EACH IDENTIFIED WITH A DIFFERENT POLITICAL PARTY, A TRANSVERSE ROW OF OPERABLE INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATE ELEMEENTS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OPERABLE PARTY VOTE MEMBER, THE CORRESPONDING CANDIDATE ELEMENTS OF EACH PARTY BEING IN A ROW PARALLEL TO THE PARTY VOTE MEMBERS, A PLURALITY OF INDIVIDUAL CANDIDATE VOTE REGISTERING ELEMENTS, AN INDIVIDUAL CIRCUIT CONTROLLED BY MANUAL OPERATION OF EACH CANDIDATE ELEMENT FOR ACTUATING A RESPECTIVE REGISTERING ELEMENT, CANCELLING MEANS INTERCONNECTING THE CORRESPONDING OPERABLE CANDIDATE ELEMENTS TO CANCEL A PREVIOUS VOTE BY A CANDIDATE ELEMENT UPON OPERATION OF A DIFFERENT CANDIDATE ELEMENT TO REGISTER A NEW VOTE, A SEPARATE CIRCUIT CONTROLLED BY EACH PARTY VOTE MEMBER UPON OPERATION THEREOF FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY CONTROLLING ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL CIRCUITS NORMALLY CONTROLLED BY THE RESPECTIVE CANDIDATE ELEMENTS OF THE CORRESPONDING PARTY VOTED FOR IN ORDER TO ACTUATE THE RESPECTIVE REGISTERING ELEMENTS, A SOURCE OF POWER FOR ENERGIZING ALL OF SAID CIRCUITS, A FIRST SWITCH MOVABLE FROM A FIRST POSITION, IN WHICH IT CONNECTS THE SOURCE OF POWER TO ALL OF THE SEPARATE CIRCUITS CONTROLLED BY THE PARTY VOTE MEMBERS, TO A SECOND POSITION FOR DISCONNECTING THE SOURCE OF POWER FROM THE SEPARATE CIRCUITS TO PREVENT PARTY VOTING, AND A SECOND SWITCH OPERABLE TO SELECTIVELY CONNECT THE SOURCE OF POWER TO ALL OF THE INDIVIDUAL CIRCUITS CONTROLLED BY THE CANDIDATE ELEMENTS OF ONLY ONE PARTY WHILE THE SEPARATE CIRCUITS ARE DISCONNECTED FROM THE SOURCE OF POWER BY THE FIRST SWITCH.