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[Mnemosyne]

Touch-screen voting machines destined for parts recycler

By GEORGE BENNETT and MICHAEL C. BENDER

Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

Friday, February 29, 2008

This time, Smithsonian curators and eBay bidders weren't interested in Palm Beach County's election artifacts.

Instead, most of the county's controversial paperless electronic touch-screen voting machines will be hauled away next week by a Tampa recycling firm to be stripped for parts.

Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning announced the ignominious end for the 6-year-old voting devices Thursday in Tallahassee. Gov. Charlie Crist and state lawmakers agreed last year to ban paperless voting in Florida and require that most votes be cast on paper ballots that can be read by optical scanners.

The paper-ballot law takes effect this fall.

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