To normally manage the number of times of the operation of a mechanical carrying means even when any trouble such as power failure is generated in the middle of the recording of the number of times of the operation of the mechanical carrying means.

This card issuing machine is provided with a sensor 118c for detecting the operating state of a mechanical carrying means, non-volatile memories 106 and 107 for recording the number of times of the operation of the mechanical carrying means, and a control part 102 for counting the number of times of the operation of the mechanical carrying means based on the operating state detected by the sensor, and for redundantly recording the number of times of the operation of the mechanical carrying means in the non-volatile memories by adding check bits in mutually different logical levels before and after the number of times of the operation.