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Florida Shifting to Voting System With Paper Trail
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Florida Shifting to Voting System
With Paper Trail
By Abby Goodnough and
Christopher Drew
The New York Times
Friday 02
February 2007
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020207L.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/02voting.html
Delray Beach - Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida's counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.
Voting experts said Florida's move, coupled with new federal voting legislation expected to pass this year, could be the death knell for the paperless electronic touch-screen machines. If as expected the Florida Legislature approves the $32.5 million cost of the change, it would be the nation's biggest repudiation yet of touch-screen voting, which was widely embraced after the 2000 recount as a state-of-the-art means of restoring confidence that every vote would count.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/02voting.html
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