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Article: Record number may cast ballots -- on paper
- Article from:
- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2008
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SAN DIEGO -- Come November, more Americans might cast their
ballots on paper than in any other election in U.S. history.
That wasn't supposed to happen. If everything had gone according
to the government's $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 touchscreen 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.
An Associated Press Election Research survey has found that 57
percent of the ...
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