Their use could cause a delay in counting votes because they cannot be read by optical scanners.

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Voters were asked whether Sarasota County should provide paper ballots, to be counted by optical scanners, in future elections.

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Instead, by 2002, counties must have in place optical scanners, which require voters fill in bubbles with a pencil.

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At least five different voting technologies will be used November 2: electronic machines, lever machines, paper ballots, optical scanners, and punch cards.

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Many of the state's county election supervisors say they would rather adopt the more advanced systems than spend money on optical scanners.

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With mobeam's technology, the Galaxy S4 can "beam" traditional 1D barcode data to any laser scanner with no new equipment, such as optical scanners or backend systems, required by the retailer.

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In any case, the same Democrats who claimed Florida was "stolen" by faulty ballot machines are now trying to discredit the optical-scanners that they have demanded -- all in order to sway the human judges who'll rule on Mr. Franken's legal challenges.

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In Virginia and North Carolina, rain caused problems for counties using optical-scan paper ballots after water dripping off of wet voters rendered the ballots unreadable by scanners.

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The MaxxScan 6120 and 6150 scanners come integrated with both the USB and parallel port connections, and all models include Xerox TextBridge optical character recognition software.

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