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Article: Record number of US voters may cast paper ballots
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- August 6, 2008
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More Americans might cast their ballots on paper in the November presidential election than in any other election in U.S. history.
That wasn't supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the government's $3-billion plan to upgrade voting technology after Florida's 2000 disputed voting left the outcome of the presidential election in limbo, those votes would be on electronic machines.
Instead, thousands of touchscreen devices are collecting dust in warehouses from California to Florida, where officials worried about hackers and fed up with technical glitches have replaced the equipment with scanners that will read paper ballots.
An Associated Press Election ...