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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 9, 2008

When I entered my voting precinct, I thought I had stepped back in time about 30 years.

The procedure was slow and cumbersome. The place was too small and the tables that were provided to place your ballots to vote on looked like they cost a couple dollars each, and the so-called privacy screen around each of them looked like they cost above 50 cents each. The people working the desks were less than efficient to say the least.

Having to fill in circles with an ink pen that people kept going home with added to the misery of it all. Then we had to put each ballot through what looked like a $10 paper shredder. I did get an "I Voted" sticker, though.

It is hard to believe that we paid millions for this system but gave up the touch-screen voting machines we had in the past which also cost us million and were so efficient.

Who is to say if one did not completely fill in the circle that the vote was read? So the error possibility is still there.

I came out embarrassed and ashamed that we have allowed the politicians to put us back in the dark ages!

DON LEGGETT SR.

Tampa

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