Instead of depending on touch-screen machines, she said, election officials should make absentee ballots available.
Other states that rushed to buy the touch-screen machines are also abandoning them.
In some cases, they have been able to vote without assistance on the touch-screen machines.
Per unit, the cost of optical scanners is about $1,000 more than a typical touch-screen machine.
The rule says no manual recounts will be conducted when votes are cast by touch-screen machine.
Many fears focused on touch-screen machines, which studies show sometimes fail to record votes.
The mistrust of touch-screen machines is thus equal parts technological and ideological.
This was hardly the first such incident involving touch-screen machines.
That does not include the $24.5 million it spent for 7,200 touch-screen machines.
Critics of touch-screen machines say that the best choice is "optical scan" technology.
