1.   Hundreds of these optical scan ballots that had registered as non-votes during the election had somehow become readable by the machines during the NORC recount.

2.   Several other counties also recently purchased their optical scan systems, and the supervisors in those counties expressed enthusiasm for them.

3.   Since then, about three-fourths of Massachusetts precincts have switched to an optical scan system.

4.   Statewide, the pattern was reversed on the optical scan systems.

5.   Some people advocate going to an optical scan, mark-the-circle ballot system.

6.   The Justice Department said the sale, as originally planned, would have reduced the number of makers of optical scan vote scan tabulation equipment from three to two.

7.   The optical scan systems have the additional advantage of being able to flag both unvoted and double-voted races before the voter leaves the polling place.

8.   Optical scan systems average half the rate of uncounted ballots as punch cards and lever machines, the report said.

9.   Optical scan technology, where voters darken circles as in standardized school tests, has support in Florida, Illinois, Arizona and more.

10.   According to the summary, eliminating punchcard ballot systems could drive jurisdictions to purchase other voting systems like optical scan machines that might not improve the situation.