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Return to paper ballots? Not so fast.(OPINION)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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May 30, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 The Christian Science Publishing Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Bryan Pfaffenberger
Charlottesville, Va. -- The paper ballot is making a comeback. Across America, election officials are ending their experiment with electronic touch-screen voting machines - a failure in the view of most experts - and replacing them with computerized tallying of paper ballots.
Some want to push the machines out entirely. To restore public confidence, they say, let's count the ballots by hand and allow citizens to observe and videotape the process.
But wait a minute. Today, fewer than 1 percent of America's votes are counted by hand. If hand counting is so great, why did we give it up?
History gives a clear answer and a sharp ...
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