County vetoes touch-screens
Volusia will rally its 16 cities in asking the state for more time to buy voting machines for the disabled.
By Kevin P. Connolly | Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted March 11, 2005
DELAND Foes of paperless voting scored a surprising victory Thursday after County Council members derailed plans to buy 210 touch-screen machines for disabled voters in Volusia a move that could reverberate across Florida as a deadline looms.
"We didn't win the war but we won the battle," said touch-screen foe Ron Cahen, legislative committee chairman for the American Civil Liberties Union's chapter for Volusia and Flagler counties.
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Many of the roughly 40 e-voting foes who attended Thursday's meeting in DeLand donned bright orange stickers bearing the message "Paper not Vapor," a reference to their concerns about potential vulnerabilities of electronic voting and their desire to have a "verifiable paper trail" such as paper ballots.
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