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Article: Count down: will electronic voting machines solve the kinds of problems that occurred in the 2000 election?(Physical)
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- Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
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- October 22, 2004
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The 2000 presidential election brought nationwide attention to the difficulty of counting every vote in an election. Of 6.1 million ballots cast in Florida, 176,000 were rejected by machine counters because the ballots were either improperly completed or blank for the presidential candidate. That number is much higher than the 537 votes by which George W. Bush beat Al Gore.
Florida's controversial election spurred many slates to replace their old punch-card ballots with new voting technology: touch-screen voting machines. In the upcoming election, nearly one-third of all voters will use electronic voting machines. The machines can prevent many of the punch-card ...