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Article: Many states turning to paper ballots for fall ; Use nearly doubles since 2000 uproar
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2008
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Florida's election fiasco in 2000 prompted many states to adopt
electronic touch-screen voting systems, but after a spate of
malfunctions and meltdowns in 2004 and 2006, paper ballots are
making a big comeback.
At least 55 percent of American voters this fall will mark their
choice for president on paper ballots that will then be read and
tabulated by optical scanning devices - nearly double the percentage
in 2000, according to Virginia-based Election Data Services, a
consulting firm that has been tracking voting technology since 1980.
Electronic touch-screen voting will decline for the first time in
eight years, and punchcard ballots, once used by nearly one-third of
the electorate, will be ...