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Fla. County to Give Away Unused Ballots
Thu Jan 2, 8:07 AM ET
It's a chance of a lifetime to own a piece of history - chads and all.
Hillsborough County elections officials are giving away 140,000 unused ballots — complete with attached chads — printed for the maligned punch-card machines retired after the 2000 election debacle, said Pam Iorio, the county's elections supervisor.
Anyone wanting some free ballots may pick them up during business hours Thursday or Friday in Iorio's office in downtown Tampa or at the Elections Service Center in suburban Brandon.
All Florida counties that used punch cards in 2000 have since shifted to modern voting machines, such as touch-screen systems.
Ballots that were used in the presidential election and its disputed recounts are sitting in warehouses around the state, while officials decide whether they should be saved for posterity.
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