1.   Both parties knew before the election that vote-counting would be done by machines that are liable to reject many votes.

2.   This gives us some idea of what Turing machines can do at a very basic level.

3.   The machine does the calculations in binary.

4.   The machine does an adequate job.

5.   This nifty little machine can do just about anything.

6.   The controls are simple but, of course, the machine can do very little by comparison with a warplane.

7.   What does that machine do?

8.   Also, the new system would be able to display ballots in a number of languages, which the lever machines cannot do.

9.   And to better show off what its machines can do, Apple is opening its own stores across the country.

10.   As a shortcut, the machine does an end run around the sheet process.