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Thursday, February 1. 2007

Florida governor calls it quits on paperless voting

Gov. Crist to recommend ditching touch-screen machines
Florida Sun

Gov. Charlie Crist is preparing to recommend that the controversial touch-screen voting machines used in Broward, Palm Beach and 13 other Florida counties be scrapped and replaced with optical scanners that would count paper ballots.

U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Boca Raton, said the governor would recommend spending at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines when he presents his proposed budget to the state Legislature on Friday.

After the old-fashioned computer punch-card voting system contributed to massive problems with the 2000 presidential election, Florida overhauled its election law. Most of the state's largest counties bought touch-screen machines.

Broward has spent about $20.4 million on touch-screen machines and Palm Beach County more than $14.4 million.

And now they will have to lose all that money because the previous administration refused to listen to us.

Never have so many paid so much for so little.

Posted by David Allen in Florida Activists at 09:52 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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"Never" is a long time. I mean, there were the Persians at Thermopylae (and, for that matter, the Brits right here at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse) ...

#1 Lex (Homepage) on 2007-02-01 13:41 (Reply)

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