For a moment Driscoll thought the machine had read his mind.

But the agency has yet to install machines to read the cards.

Seeing a copy of how the machine read our vote on paper is only fair.

Most of those are gone now, or we don't have the machines to read them.

The data could then be put into a form that a machine can read.

Earlier there had been three new messages, and now my machine was reading "4"!

Mostly he was thinking how well the machine had read him.

But the machine could read about 75 percent of the envelopes.

Currently, the best machines can read only carefully printed block letters.

"But today all four machines read the same to the thousandth of a second," he said.