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Voting Study Shows Inefficiency of Punch Cards

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An MIT/Caltech study of nationwide voting systems shows that in cases of overvoting and undervoting, paper ballots, levers, and scanners are more efficient than the punch cards used in the 2000 presidential election in Florida. Read about this study in this National Geographic News article.

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