| 11. | Miami-Dade uses the same kind of punch card system as Palm Beach, Broward, Collier, Hillsborough and seven other counties.
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| 12. | The worst method, the study found, was the punch card system, and results from touch-screen machines were not much better.
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| 13. | With punch card systems, ballot can dimple, or have incompletely detached punches, or chads, that confuse the electronic card readers.
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| 14. | Dick Smolka, who publishes Election Administration Report, notes that even the now-ridiculed punch card systems sometimes work better than computers.
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| 15. | As late as 20 years ago, experts in punch card systems talked about not wanting them if you wanted accuracy.
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| 16. | _73 percent of black voters lived in counties using unreliable punch card systems, while 59 percent of white voters did;
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| 17. | It was controlled by a punch card system that was a forerunner of the system used in computers until the 1970s.
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| 18. | Responding to public anger at the punch card systems, LePore bought paperless DRE voting machines from Sequoia Voting Systems in 2002.
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| 19. | But punch card systems are notoriously likely to undercount votes _ far more likely than the other voting mechanisms used in Florida.
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| 20. | Researchers at Japan's Economic Planning Agency introduced an improved version ( HITAC 102B ) as a substitute to the punch card system.
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