| 11. | The most significant change the task force will recommend is the statewide use of optical scanning equipment.
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| 12. | In Seminole County in central Florida, elections officials ran out of ballots for its new optical scanning machines.
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| 13. | Newer systems, especially those using optical scanning technology, are probably more accurate, and they are now quite cheap.
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| 14. | Officials in counties with optical scanning say they are more confident in the reason for the so-called undervotes.
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| 15. | Optical scanning, in which lasers read printed or hand-marked symbols on ballots, were used by 27.3 percent of voters.
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| 16. | The highest rates of discarded ballots were in counties that used paper ballots but lacked on-site optical scanning machines.
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| 17. | Baldwin County uses optical scanning cards : voters mark their choices by scratching a line on a paper card.
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| 18. | But " optical scanning is a pretty good interim solution for the next five or 10 years, " he said.
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| 19. | Working with the optical scanning of Earth's atmosphere, her research focuses on the effect of aerosols in the atmosphere's composition.
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| 20. | A bipartisan group of inspectors agreed that the optical scanning voting machine had erroneously rejected a ballot marked for her.
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