Florida election problems not a preview of Georgia
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Posted 4:05PM on Wednesday, September 11, 2002
ATLANTA - With Florida's election process in disarray again, Georgia officials say the new $54 million voting system they are rolling out for the November election won't have the same problems. <br>
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In the election Tuesday, only 15 of Florida's 67 counties used the touch-screen voting technology that will be used throughout Georgia on November 5. <br>
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And none of it was manufactured by the company Georgia selected as its supplier, said a spokesman for the secretary of state's office. <br>
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Georgia bought more than 19,000 new touch-screen machines to overhaul an election system in which voting equipment varied from county to county. Some used punch-card ballots, others relied on optical-scan technology. <br>
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The Florida problems included machines that went off-line for extended periods and ballot jams in optical scanners.