EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Doug Jones
Organization : | N/A
Post Date : | 9/27/2005
Glossary Comments
Glossary Term : | Direct Record Electronic (DRE) Voting System_b
Definition : |
Comment : | -- Comment: A matter of grammar and usage. When an adjective modifies a noun, and the composite is used as an adjective, the phrase should be hyphenated, so it is a direct-recording voting machine. In the case of DRE voting machines, one could write direct-recording-electronic voting machine or direct-recording electronic voting machine. The former treats direct-recording-electronic as the adjective phrase, while the latter treats electronic voting machine as the noun phrase being modified by the adjective direct-recording. English is so much fun.