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Article: Return to paper ballots? Not so fast
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- June 3, 2008
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BRYAN PFAFFENBERGER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-03-2008
Return to paper ballots? Not so fast
By BRYAN PFAFFENBERGER
Date: 06-03-2008, Tuesday
Section: OPINION
Edtion: All Editions
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 ...
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