A controversial electronic voting system must undergo federal security testing before it can be approved for use in California, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson said Tuesday.
Diebold Election System's optical scan and touch-screen voting systems, which were scheduled to be used in 17 California counties in June's election, will have their state certification delayed for the second time, McPherson said.
"We have determined that there is sufficient cause for additional federal evaluation,'' he said in a statement. "I have consistently stated that I will not certify any system for use in California unless it meets the most stringent voting system requirements.''
Studies in other states have suggested that the company's new memory cards may be vulnerable to hackers. A test in Leon County, Fla., showed that hackers using the same access as election department employees could reprogram the cards to change election results and leave no trace.
The rest of the Christian Science Monitor story here.
Dec 24, 2005
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