TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's experiment with touch-screen voting machines is over.
The Florida Legislature voted Thursday morning to spend nearly $28 million to scrap the ATM-styled machines used in 15 Florida counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward and replace them with ones that use paper ballots.
The push to switch Florida from the touch-screen machines was a top priority of Gov. Charlie Crist, who said he doesn't want the state to be embarrassed anymore by its elections.
www.miamiherald.com/458/story/95130.html
About time!
The Florida Legislature voted Thursday morning to spend nearly $28 million to scrap the ATM-styled machines used in 15 Florida counties, including Miami-Dade and Broward and replace them with ones that use paper ballots.
The push to switch Florida from the touch-screen machines was a top priority of Gov. Charlie Crist, who said he doesn't want the state to be embarrassed anymore by its elections.
www.miamiherald.com/458/story/95130.html
About time!
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Re: Florida Dumps Touch-Screens
Sat, July 14, 2007 - 12:50 AMFor sale, incredibly cheap: 25,000 Florida touch screen voting machines, like new but rendered obsolete by a changed political climate.
The switch to paper ballots ordered by Gov. Charlie Crist and the Legislature means that most touch screens, only a few years old, must be junked and replaced by the fall of 2008 with optical scanners that read paper ballots marked by a voter's hand.
Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who's in charge of disposing of the touch screens, can't find a buyer.
That means counties such as Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas will lose tens of millions of dollars they invested in those machines.
www.sptimes.com/2007/07/12...to_pr.shtml
