About 37 percent use punch-card systems.

The touch screens had replaced the punch-card systems that caused widespread problems that year.

The hotel used one of those punch-card systems where you insert the key until the green light comes on.

Across the country, the punch-card systems have resulted in significantly higher numbers of uncounted ballots.

Florida's electoral fiasco in 2000 confirmed what many state and county election officials had known for years: that punch-card systems were outdated.

The machines are considered more accurate than the punch-card system that was the source of so much turmoil last year, but they are not foolproof.

By contrast, the first punch-card system, used in 1964, cost about $800 and weighed only about 20 pounds, saving money for transportation and storage.

Election administrators across the country have grown disgusted with the punch-card systems.

"Any Internet voting system is going to be light years ahead of a punch-card system in terms of security," he said.

Any system can fail, but experts say the relatively cheap punch-card systems tend to render more votes uncountable.