In 1976, Hillsborough County dumped voting machines in favor of the current punch card system, which Iorio predicts is all but dead.
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Manatee brought in the optical system in 1997, replacing its Datavote punch card system, which about 10 counties in Florida still use.
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Florida officials insist touchscreens are far more accurate than older voting systems _ such as the state's retired and much-maligned punch card system.
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Voters here still use the punch card system, and no one complained about the ballot this year, according to Assistant Supervisor Fae Mansfield.
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Within Florida, where the legal skirmishing focused mostly on counties that used punch card systems, the array of problems was broader than first imagined.
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The punch card system has been thrown out altogether in Massachusetts, where a judge overturned a congressional race because of voters'confusion about the ballot.
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Specifically, she said, the state needs to standardize its patchwork of voting systems so that citizens in counties that use punch card systems are not disenfranchised.
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And what Mr . Boies is suggesting is that everyone of those counties, simply because they had a punch card system, must automatically do a manual recount.
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_11 percent of black voters in counties using punch card systems had their ballots thrown out, while only 4 percent of white voters had their votes discarded;
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Hawkins said many election officials who use the punch card systems try to avoid the practice of putting names on facing pages, but sometimes it is impossible to avoid.
