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Article: Paper ballots hang on.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2008
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Byline: Associated Press
SAN DIEGO Come November, more Americans might cast their ballots on paper than in any other election in U.S. history.
That wasnt supposed to happen. If everything had gone according to the governments $3 billion plan to upgrade voting technology after the hanging-chad fiasco in Florida in 2000, that sentence would read "electronic machines" instead of paper.
Instead, thousands of touch-screen 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.
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