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Article: Most voters might cast paper ballots
- Article from:
- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2008
- Author:
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - 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 ...
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