Last of 11 counties win recertification for electronic voting in November

Last of 11 counties win recertification for electronic voting in November

The Associated Press


Last Updated: August 24, 2004, 05:40:27 PM PDT


SACRAMENTO (AP) - The last of 11 counties banned in April from using electronic voting machines on Nov. 2 have won renewed rights to use their machines, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced Tuesday.

Shelley's office said Alameda and Plumas counties have agreed to tighter security conditions for using the machines, including making paper ballots available to those who ask for them.

Nine other counties agreed in recent weeks to the same conditions, including sharing their computer source code with independent experts for analysis, and increasing poll worker training on electronic voting machines.

Shelley decertified 28,000 touch-screen voting machines in 10 counties, and also those used for early voting in Los Angeles County, until they met specific conditions to prevent problems that occurred in the March 2 primary.

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We're not asking for much - just what they used in some third world country a little over a week ago.