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Florida Literally Scraps Touch-Screen Voting

Posted by kdawson on from the do-not-want dept.

Kaseijin writes "Florida Governor Charlie Crist is getting his wish. The New York Times reports the state will replace touch-screen voting machines with optical-scan models by July 1, 2008 — the most aggressive timetable of any jurisdiciton rethinking this approach to voting. The touch-screen machines most likely will be sold to other jurisdictions or stripped for parts."

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  1. Re:Parts? by rizzo320 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I bet the touch screens could be disconnected and used for other purposes.

  2. Re:Parts? by AsmordeanX · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If they put them on ebay I bet hackers and geeks would swarm the auctions. A cheap (depending on what they want for it) VGA touch screen, small PC that you might be able to install a different OS to?

    Sadly though, those $5000 machines will probably only sell for $200 tops online.

  3. Re:Parts? by zig007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Funny, my interest did the exact opposite after reading the following:
    "Proprietary firmware on closed system prevents hacker access"

    Hm.. Were have I heard that one before? :-)

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