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Article: New machines remain a hot issue as Nov. 2004 vote draws near.(Voting Access)(presidential elections-voting machines)
- Article from:
- Report on Disability Programs
- Article date:
- January 22, 2004
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Despite the scares about the new touch-screen voting machines, which will allow blind voters to cast independent ballots, several states are planning to use them in this November's elections.
The list of these states includes Georgia, which already had the machines in place for the 2002 elections. The District of Columbia also used them for its nonbinding presidential primary on Jan. 14. And in Florida, a federal judge has ordered the state and the city of Jacksonville to have the machines ready for the August primary.
The machines give out auditory messages for blind voters, who use headsets to receive prompts for casting their votes. States are required ...