Crist wants voting paper trail

[Freddie Stubbs]

Florida should move to a voting system that provides a paper trail, Gov. Charlie Crist will announce Thursday. The estimated cost for the new system: $32.5 million.

BY MARC CAPUTO, MARY ELLEN KLAS AND GARY FINEOUT
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TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Charlie Crist wants to spend nearly $33 million to replace Florida's maligned ATM-style voting machines with systems that provide a clear paper trail.

The decision, if approved by state lawmakers, would end one of the most bitter election debates in Florida: whether the electronic touch-screen machines have bugs in their secret software that could make votes disappear.

Crist plans to make his announcement Thursday in Palm Beach County, home of the 2000 butterfly-ballot meltdown that led to the rise of the touch-screen machines in South Florida and other urban areas.

The governor wants to replace them with the optical-scan voting machines used in most areas of the state -- including Tallahassee's Leon County, where Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho has been a harsh critic of the touch-screen systems, used in 15 counties.

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[El Fuego]

1. Charlie Crist...

is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

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2. So far I am so impressed with our new Gov Crist

I feel he is a true Floridain and care about our state and it s people. I hope I am right, maybe he is like Lawton Ghiles!