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Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, last week announced a $32 million plan to junk the state’s paperless touch-screen voting machines in favor of machines that electronically scan paper ballots. Fifteen of Florida’s 67 counties use touch-screen machines that do not produce a paper record of each ballot cast, making it virtually impossible to check the validity of reported results. Florida has been plagued by voting problems since 2000, when the results of presidential balloting were delayed for months while election officials wrangled over thousands of disputed ballots. Members of Florida’s legislature, which must approve the plan, expressed concerns about its cost.
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