DoYouEverWonder
03-21-2008, 04:08 AM
March 21, 2008
Broward's much-maligned touch-screen voting machines, purchased as part of an effort to improve elections after the 2000 debacle, are packed up and ready for their trip — to the recycler.
"We are sending 4,500 iVotronics [touch screen machines] back. We did have a total of a little over 6,000," said Mary Cooney, spokeswoman for the Broward Supervisor of Elections office.
Of those that are being sent away, 3,100 have been packed. "They have not been shipped yet because we are waiting for direction from the state."
Starting with the Aug. 26 primaries for congressional, state legislative and county posts, voters will mark paper ballots that will be read by optical scanners, similar to the way students take computer-scored, tests in school.
Some are being kept a few more years. Until 2012, one touch-screen machine will be allowed in each polling place so people with visual problems can use the audio feature without having to ask for help.
The state law passed last year that ends touch-screen voting gives the Secretary of State's Office the responsibility of disposing of the equipment, and getting as much as possible for it.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbvoting0321pnmar21,0,4070432.story?track=rss
The State of FL threw away millions for this garbage, but I guess to them it was worth it since they helped put Bush back in the WH.
Broward's much-maligned touch-screen voting machines, purchased as part of an effort to improve elections after the 2000 debacle, are packed up and ready for their trip — to the recycler.
"We are sending 4,500 iVotronics [touch screen machines] back. We did have a total of a little over 6,000," said Mary Cooney, spokeswoman for the Broward Supervisor of Elections office.
Of those that are being sent away, 3,100 have been packed. "They have not been shipped yet because we are waiting for direction from the state."
Starting with the Aug. 26 primaries for congressional, state legislative and county posts, voters will mark paper ballots that will be read by optical scanners, similar to the way students take computer-scored, tests in school.
Some are being kept a few more years. Until 2012, one touch-screen machine will be allowed in each polling place so people with visual problems can use the audio feature without having to ask for help.
The state law passed last year that ends touch-screen voting gives the Secretary of State's Office the responsibility of disposing of the equipment, and getting as much as possible for it.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbvoting0321pnmar21,0,4070432.story?track=rss
The State of FL threw away millions for this garbage, but I guess to them it was worth it since they helped put Bush back in the WH.