11. Miami-Dade uses the same kind of punch card system as Palm Beach, Broward, Collier, Hillsborough and seven other counties. 12. The worst method, the study found, was the punch card system , and results from touch-screen machines were not much better. 13. With punch card systems , ballot can dimple, or have incompletely detached punches, or chads, that confuse the electronic card readers. 14. Dick Smolka, who publishes Election Administration Report, notes that even the now-ridiculed punch card systems sometimes work better than computers. 15. As late as 20 years ago, experts in punch card systems talked about not wanting them if you wanted accuracy. 16. _73 percent of black voters lived in counties using unreliable punch card systems , while 59 percent of white voters did; 17. It was controlled by a punch card system that was a forerunner of the system used in computers until the 1970s. 18. Responding to public anger at the punch card systems , LePore bought paperless DRE voting machines from Sequoia Voting Systems in 2002. 19. But punch card systems are notoriously likely to undercount votes _ far more likely than the other voting mechanisms used in Florida. 20. Researchers at Japan's Economic Planning Agency introduced an improved version ( HITAC 102B ) as a substitute to the punch card system .
