| 41. | When I voted this year, I fed my paper ballot through an optical scanner and into a storage box.
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| 42. | They want to use optical scanners, the Internet, and satellite geopositioning to monitor shipments and speed trucks into ports.
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| 43. | But the rate was only 0 . 8 percent in the 26 counties with optical scanners in each precinct.
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| 44. | The paper ballots are voted on and then a privacy-preserving portion of the ballot is scanned by an optical scanner.
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| 45. | Five of the companies are seeking approval for the ATM-styled touch-screen system and two are seeking certification for optical scanners.
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| 46. | If money is used to buy optical scanners, the big cost is in buying all those ballots year after year.
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| 47. | Mercuri noted that when circles that are not precisely filled in they may not be accurately counted by optical scanners.
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| 48. | Other Florida counties use optical scanner machines, where voters use pencils to mark ballots that are then counted by computers.
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| 49. | The downside of switching from computer punch cards to an optical scanner system like Tarrant's is the cost, he said.
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| 50. | Five of the companies are seeking approval for the ATM-styled touchscreen system and two are seeking certification for optical scanners.
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