Florida To Get Voting Systems With
TALLAHASSEE – The state of Florida should receive a whole new batch of voting machines ahead of the next presidential election. The new governor has called for thousands optical scanners that would count paper ballots to replace controversial touch-screen voting machines. Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican, had worked out a deal with Rep. Robert Wexler, a Democrat of Boca Raton, to spend at least $20 million on optical scanners for the 15 counties with touch-screen machines. The arrangements are to be included in Crist
