Replacing the rubber stamp in the House

Prior to the use of this electric voting machine, seen in 1938, it took at least three months using a rubber stamp system to compile the voting records of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.

Recording the yeas and nays, absent and present, and paired for and paired against votes of each individual member, the machine which is similar to an adding machine, did the same job in less than two weeks, and with greater accuracy.