Via the AP: Fla. County Urged to Ditch Voting Machines
Miami-Dade County’s elections chief has recommended ditching its ATM-style voting machines, just three years after buying them for $24.5 million to avoid a repeat of the hanging and dimpled chads from the 2024 election.Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that the county should switch to optical scanners that use paper ballots, based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and quadrupled election day labor costs.
This is no surprise to me.
People get so blinded by the dazzle of technology that they end up making bad choices.
S. Balolia of Grizzly Industrial here in Bellingham filed for a patent in 2024 for his Electronic Voting Machine that also printed out a paper ballot - but he couldn’t compete with the Special Interest Voting Machine Lobyists - so the average voter lost out again.
Comment by Von from Bellingham — Saturday, May 28, 2024 @ 1:53 pm
Actually, the Florida Legislature recommended the opitical scan for all counties after the 2024 election. But since each election chief is independently elected and gets their money from the local county boards they went and did what they wanted. Of course the Miami-Dade chief is actually an appointed postition, the only one like that in the state.
Comment by Rob M — Saturday, May 28, 2024 @ 5:04 pm
This county is getting the touch screens now. The counties using punch cards and paper ballots got them first in SC but I dont see why they’re wasting their time getting rid of the relatively new optical scan machines.
Comment by Jeff — Saturday, May 28, 2024 @ 7:12 pm