Florida: Analysis Reveals Touch-Screen Flaws.

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Link to Guardian article posted in LBN, this is original Sun-Sentinel article... This is election theft for the 21st century.

Analysis reveals flaws in voting by touch-screen

July 11, 2004

Florida's relatively new touch-screen voting machines, touted as a solution to the state's 2000 presidential election meltdown, didn't perform as well as machines that use an older technology during a statewide election earlier this year, according to a South Florida Sun-Sentinel analysis.

Records from the March 9 Democratic presidential primary show that votes were not recorded for one out of 100 voters using the new ATM-style machines. That's at least eight times more than the number of flawed votes cast in the same election with pencil marks on paper ballots tallied by an optical scanner.

Experts blame Florida's political leaders for embracing the relatively sophisticated touch-screen machines before they were perfected and made more user-friendly.

Fifteen Florida counties now use touch-screen machines, including Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade.

In December 2001, Broward County chose a $17.2 million touch-screen system over a pencil-and-paper system priced at no more than $5 million. Earlier that year, in May, Palm Beach County agreed to pay $14 million for touch-screens, compared to $3 million for the simpler system.

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