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America Votes 2002: Curbside Voting

Aired November 05, 2002 - 11:55   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Earlier this hour, if you were here with us, you saw John Zarrella. He was out doing a live report from in front of a precinct, and he showed us some lady who was waiting inside of a car at the curb and was trying to get somehow some way a way to vote there at the curb in Miami.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: From her car, in Miami, Florida. Well, apparently, it worked out, and let's check back in with John Zarrella to see how. Hi, John.

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It certainly did. You know technology is an absolutely wonderful thing when it works, and it sure worked here today. Curbside voting service. What they do is these new I-Votetronic touchscreen machines are battery powered, they fold up like a laptop, a clerk of the elections office here of the polling place, brought the laptop out to her. Our elderly voter, she sat in her car, she signed the register and the roll, showing that it was her indeed, and then they read her the list of the candidates and the different issues that were on the ballot. She went ahead and told the woman, the clerk, the clerk punched in the numbers, and at the very end, the only thing she had to do from sitting in her car, was punch the red vote button that signified these were the candidates and the issues she had voted for. And that was it.

They took the laptop out, brought it back inside, and mother and daughter, away they went and a successful vote here in Miami. I tell you, technology can be a wonderful thing when it works, and it's nice to see that these machines are working. One other piece of news, 108,000 people in Miami-Dade County have voted earlier. That's about 20 percent of the vote they expected. That's why they're saying, we're not seeing very many people here today, that the turnout appears low, but really it's not.

KAGAN: John Zarrella, thank you so much.

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Aired November 5, 2002 - 11:55   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Earlier this hour, if you were here with us, you saw John Zarrella. He was out doing a live report from in front of a precinct, and he showed us some lady who was waiting inside of a car at the curb and was trying to get somehow some way a way to vote there at the curb in Miami.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: From her car, in Miami, Florida. Well, apparently, it worked out, and let's check back in with John Zarrella to see how. Hi, John.

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It certainly did. You know technology is an absolutely wonderful thing when it works, and it sure worked here today. Curbside voting service. What they do is these new I-Votetronic touchscreen machines are battery powered, they fold up like a laptop, a clerk of the elections office here of the polling place, brought the laptop out to her. Our elderly voter, she sat in her car, she signed the register and the roll, showing that it was her indeed, and then they read her the list of the candidates and the different issues that were on the ballot. She went ahead and told the woman, the clerk, the clerk punched in the numbers, and at the very end, the only thing she had to do from sitting in her car, was punch the red vote button that signified these were the candidates and the issues she had voted for. And that was it.

They took the laptop out, brought it back inside, and mother and daughter, away they went and a successful vote here in Miami. I tell you, technology can be a wonderful thing when it works, and it's nice to see that these machines are working. One other piece of news, 108,000 people in Miami-Dade County have voted earlier. That's about 20 percent of the vote they expected. That's why they're saying, we're not seeing very many people here today, that the turnout appears low, but really it's not.

KAGAN: John Zarrella, thank you so much.

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