By Rich Phillips and John Zarrella - CNN Senior Producer and CorrespondentPALM BEACH COUNTY, Florida (CNN) -- As Election Day approaches, Brad Merriman does a lot of praying. "Our motto right now is we're gonna plan for a recount and pray that we don't have one," he said jokingly.
Merriman, a county administrator, was brought in to oversee the upcoming general election after a botched judicial election this August in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Eight years ago in Florida, all eyes were on the hanging chad. The chads are gone and so are the ATM-style touch screen voting machines. They've been replaced by voting machines called optical scan, which provide an old-fashioned paper trail, something many critics felt was missing in the event of a recount.
The entire state has switched to the optical scan technology. More than half of the state's 10.75 million voters will use the system for the first time and for most Floridians, this will be the third voting system in eight years, leaving plenty of room for confusion.
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