Article: Paper ballots.

Byline: Diana M. Alba

May 3--When Dona Ana County voters hit the polls in November, they'll notice something missing.

In place of the electronic voting machines they're accustomed to, they'll find paper ballots, a change decided on this year by the state Legislature.

Voters will walk into a booth, fill out their ballots with a pencil and then slip them into a tabulator.

Mari Langford-Pavao, elections supervisor for Dona Ana County, said the state is expecting to get new equipment for paper ballots -- vote tabulators and ballot marker machines for disabled voters -- around July or August. The county will get 80 of each type, enough to ...

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