Abstract: A modular accessible voting system according to some embodiments includes: a tabulator having a top surface, a tabulator paper input, and a tabulator paper output; a ballot printer, the ballot printer being removably mechanically affixable to the top surface of the tabulator, the ballot printer having a printer paper output; and a hands-free ballot adapter, the ballot adapter being removably mechanically affixable between the tabulator and the ballot printer, such that when the ballot printer and the ballot adapter are affixed to the tabulator, the ballot adapter is operable to direct a printed ballot from the printer paper output to the tabulator paper input.

Abstract: A ballot box according to an embodiment comprises first and second side walls with rigid frames. Collapsible front, rear, and bottom panels are provided that extend between the side walls. A top panel is provided that includes a flexible top panel layer and a rigid top panel layer secured to the flexible top panel layer, and it includes an aperture shaped to receive ballots. The flexible top panel layer is releasably securable across the top of the ballot box, and, when the flexible top layer is secured across the top perimeter, the rigid top panel layer is configured to rest on top of the first and second side walls.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for implementing a low-profile tabulator. An example apparatus includes scanning optics and an imprinter positioned along a paper path. A ballot is scanned with the scanning optics to obtain a digital image of the ballot. A ballot approval input is received from a user, for example after the user has reviewed information representative of their selections. In response to the ballot approval, the imprinter imprints an identifier on the ballot, and data is stored that associates the identifier with the digital image of the ballot, e.g. by overlaying an image of the identifier on the digital image of the ballot. Example embodiments do not require the ballot to be re-scanned after the imprinting process, thus allowing a lower-profile form factor for the tabulator apparatus.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing double-sided thermally-printable ballot stock is disclosed, comprising: receiving a first and a second input roll of paper having a thermo-sensitive ink layer and a base paper layer and emitting a first web; tension evening of the first and second web using festooning rollers; applying an adhesive in a liquid state using anilox rollers to the base paper layer of the first web; laminating the first web and the second web through laminating rollers, with the base paper layer of the first web contacting the base paper layer of the second web using the adhesive to create a laminated output web; heating the laminated output web to cure the adhesive in an oven while moving the laminated output web through the oven; and reducing a temperature of the applied liquid adhesive in the laminated output web.

Abstract: A thermal ballot printer is disclosed for producing double-sided thermal full-face printed voting ballots, comprising: a first thermal print head disposed on a first side of a print path, the print path being configured to receive an end of a roll-fed thermal print medium; a second thermal print head disposed on a second side of a print path; and a cutter disposed on the first side of the print path and configured to cut printed sheets.

Abstract: A medical catheter including a composite laminated shaft having a segment that is mechanically deformed to have reduced stiffness.

Abstract: A medical catheter including a composite laminated shaft having a longitudinal segment that is mechanically deformed to have reduced and varying stiffness. A method of making the catheter is also disclosed.

Abstract: Catheters for aspiration of thrombotic, atherosclerotic or other particulate embolic debris from a blood vessel. An elongate flexible aspiration tube has an aspiration lumen defined by a reinforced tube wall. A guidewire tube is secured alongside the aspiration tube extending proximally from a distal end thereof to define either over-the-wire or single operator catheter configurations. The portion of the aspiration tube alongside the guidewire tube has an oval transverse cross section with a minor axis extending transversely through the guidewire tube. The oval cross section of the aspiration tube improves the catheter's efficient use of cross sectional space by making the overall catheter transverse cross section nearly equal in orthogonal dimensions. Methods of making aspiration catheters are also disclosed, including permanently deforming the portion of the aspiration tube into an oval transverse cross section.

Abstract: A medical catheter including a composite laminated shaft having a segment that is mechanically deformed to have reduced stiffness.

Abstract: A medical catheter including a composite laminated shaft having a longitudinal segment that is mechanically deformed to have reduced and varying stiffness. A method of making the catheter is also disclosed.

Abstract: Catheters for aspiration of thrombotic, atherosclerotic or other particulate embolic debris from a blood vessel. An elongate flexible aspiration tube has an aspiration lumen defined by a reinforced tube wall. A guidewire tube is secured alongside the aspiration tube extending proximally from a distal end thereof to define either over-the-wire or single operator catheter configurations. The portion of the aspiration tube alongside the guidewire tube has an oval transverse cross section with a minor axis extending transversely through the guidewire tube. The oval cross section of the aspiration tube improves the catheter's efficient use of cross sectional space by making the overall catheter transverse cross section nearly equal in orthogonal dimensions. Methods of making aspiration catheters are also disclosed, including permanently deforming the portion of the aspiration tube into an oval transverse cross section.

Abstract: A catheter having one or more radially expanded portions that comprise a guidewire lumen. The guidewire lumen and the main lumen of the catheter are not separate and share the same fluid space. The catheter maintains a large, circular lumen for aspiration or delivery. The catheter is made by lacing a guidewire lumen mandrel through openings made in the catheter shaft and then forcing the shaft to expand radially to create a guidewire lumen.