Voting machine with card punch mechanism

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A VOTE REGISTERING MECHANISM INCLUDING A SHAFT 28, MEANS 16 FOR ROTATING SAID SHAFT 28, AN ABUTMENT MEMBER 106 ROTATABLY MOUNTED ON SAID SHAFT 28 AND EXTENDING THEREFROM IN RADIAL DIRECTION, STRUCTURE DEFINING A CARD RECEPTACLE 14 AND HAVING A TRANSVERSE SLOT 86 FORMED THEREIN, A SENSING ELEMENT 88 MOVABLE IN AN ARCUATE PATH IN SAID SLOT 86, MEANS 102 BIASING SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 INTO SAID SLOT 86 SO AS TO POSITION SAID ELEMENT 88 IN SAID CARD RECEPTACLE 14, A BLOCKING ELEMENT 104 CONNECTED TO SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 AND BEING MOVABLE THEREWITH INTO AND OUT OF THE PATH OF SAID ABUTMENT MEMBER 106, SAID BLOCKING ELEMENT 104 BEING IN THE PATH OF SAID ABUTMENT MEMBER 106 WHEN SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 IS IN ONE POSITION IN SAID RECEPTACLE 14 AND BEING OUT OF THE PATH OF SAID ABUTMENT MEMBER 106 WHEN SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 IS OUT OF SAID ONE POSITION, SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 BEING MOVABLE AGAINST THE BIAS OF SAID BIASING MEANS 102 OUT OF SAID ONE POSITION WHEN A CARD 60 IS INSERTED INTO SAID RECEPTACLE 14, WHEREBY SAID VOTE REGISTERING MECHANISM IS RENDERED OPERABLE BY THE INSERTION OF A CARD 60 INTO SAID RECEPTACLE 14 IS MOVABLE IN AXIAL DIRECTION AWAY FROM SAID ABOUT AN AXIS, SAID STRUCTURE DEFINING SAID CARD RECEPTACLE 41 IS MOVABLE IN AXIAL DIRECTION AWAY FROM SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 SO AS TO WITHDRAW SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 FROM SAID SLOT 86 IN AXIAL DIRECTION, WHEREBY THE RESISTANCE OF SAID CARD 60 TO THE BIAS OF SAID BIASING MEANS 102 IS REMOVED UPON WITHDRAWAL OF SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 FROM SAID SLOT 86 AND SAID SENSING ELEMENT 88 IS RETURNED TO SAID ONE POSITION.