Florida Going To Paper Ballots For 2008

   Since it all started in Florida back in the 2000 presidential appointment, it is only appropriate that the state of Florida would now shift to a voting system of casting paper ballots over the touch-screen system now in use.

   The paper ballots will be counted by a scanning machine and the system will be ready just in time for the 2008 elections, according to The New York Times.

By ABBY GOODNOUGH and CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: February 2, 2007

Voting experts said Florida’s move, coupled with new federal voting legislation expected to pass this year, could be the death knell for the paperless electronic touch-screen machines. If as expected the Florida Legislature approves the $32.5 million cost of the change, it would be the nation’s biggest repudiation yet of touch-screen voting, which was widely embraced after the 2000 recount as a state-of-the-art means of restoring confidence that every vote would count.

NYTimes Article

 

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