Steve Schmuger heads up Miami-Dade County's in-plant, now hard at work printing ballots for the November election.

Florida drew national attention during the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, as the fate of the election boiled down to the Sunshine State and the counting of ballots featuring "dangling chads" that were not completely punched by voters. The state switched to electronic voting, but dissatisfaction with the touch screens brought back paper ballots that are read by optical scanners.