Florida Voters Sound Off on New Voting System

Following hanging chads and other problems plaguing the 2000 election, many of Florida's counties switched to touch screen machines in which there was no paper trail of votes. Because of problems with those computerized systems, including 18,000 under-counted votes in a very close 2006 Congressional election, the state moved to an optical scan system with a paper trail, beginning with the primary election on August 26th    of this year.

Voters bubble-in an oval on these paper ballots, which are then read by a machine and can be recounted by hand in a disputed election. WMNF Community Radio's Seán Kinane spoke with voters in Tampa to see if they felt confident in Florida's new voting machines.

WMNF Community Radio's Seán Kinane recorded and produced today's installment of Street Beat, interviewing Tampa resident's about Florida's new voting machines.

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