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Article: Technicians, lawmakers try to do away with chads: Optical scanners and touch screens are vying to replace punch cards as a more reliable voting method.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 23, 2001
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Voting technology is at a major crossroads as election officials - in Florida and elsewhere - find themselves riding the crest of a wave of public concern about the machines relied on for casting and counting votes.
Officials are considering shifting away from discredited punch-card ballots, blamed for much of the confusion surrounding last fall's presidential election in Florida. At present, punch-card ballots are used by more than one-third of US voters.
Experts say it is still too early to tell which ballot technology will emerge as the primary replacement. But they say it is only a matter of time.
"We are going to go in one of two ...