CLEVELAND -- Cuyahoga County is once again expected to be a battleground in the upcoming election, but the Board of Elections says it's prepared this time, with a move back to paper ballots.

Gone are the high-tech headaches of the past few years, when touch screen computers hiccupped, triggering blank screens, missing votes and national embarrassment.

There is still some high-tech in the new low-tech system. Scanners are being added to every precinct to read ballots.

If you make a mistake you'll get a chance to try again, and the scanners will tally, too.

If you need help filling out your ballot, there is a new touch screen that fills in the paper ballot for you.

The new machines may be more reliable, but they're not cheap. The price tag so far is $5 million, with plans for upgrades next year of $7 million, all to fix high-tech touch screens that taxpayers paid $21 million to get but now gather dust in a warehouse.

Millions of dollars to fix a multimillion-dollar mistake is tough to swallow, but with so much riding again on votes in Cuyahoga County, elections officials said we can't afford to get it wrong this time.

The county and Diebold are still in court, battling over who will pay for the old touch-screen machines that didn't work.