OKLAHOMA CITY -- State election officials say they'll use $33 million in federal money to install touch-screen voting machines by next year.
Election Board Secretary Mike Clingman says the government provided the money in response to the controversy in Florida over the 2000 presidential election.
Clingman says the new machines will probably use the same kind of ballot, but will include scanners designed to allow the blind and others with disabilities to cast a secret ballot for the first time.
Clingman says the state is working with federal officials to determine whether all of the state's 2400 precincts must have the new machines.
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You have to understand that we use the world's easiest paper ballots that are marked with a felt tip pen and scanned with an optical scanner.
They're easy to use and completely reliable. There is no advantage in this as far as I can see. So, why touch-screen machines and why now?
Does anyone out there have any thoughts?
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