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Paper Ballots Rock the Vote

Posted Jun 17, 08 5:58 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Paper ballots are making a comeback in many states after problems plagued electronic voting systems—thanks in large part to issues with Florida's hanging chads in 2000. At least 55% of US ballots in November will be cast on paper, then optically scanned, the Boston Globe reports. Security isn't expected to be a problem, but election workers unfamiliar with the technology could be.

"Inevitably, the biggest problems occur the first time you use new equipment," says an election expert. Touch-screen use is falling; Gov. Charlie Christ mandated optical scanners after widespread anomalies with touch-screen machines in Florida's 2006 elections. Ohio has also switched many of its machines after multiple irregularities in 2004.

Source Boston Globe

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Political party supporters watch as election officials empty ballot boxes.   (Getty Images)
Sue Munguia operates an optical scanning machine reading paper ballots at a warehouse belonging to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections in Cleveland, Ohio Tuesday, March 4, 2008.   (AP Photo)
Election workers unload paper ballots from a ballot box at a warehouse belonging to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, for optical scanning, in Cleveland, Tuesday March 4, 2008.   (AP Photo)
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