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By Abby Goodnough and Christopher Drew
The New York Times
Friday 02 February 2007
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Delray Beach - Gov. Charlie Crist announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of
Florida's counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of
casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.
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.
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