Seven counties promise to use paper ballots

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Seven counties promise to use paper ballots

SAN FRANCISCO - Seven of 18 counties sued to prevent them from using Diebold Election Systems' electronic voting machines in November's general election were removed from the lawsuit Wednesday when they gave assurances to a judge they would use paper ballots.

Those counties are Humboldt, Marin, Placer, San Luis Obispo, Trinity, Tulare and Santa Barbara counties. Butte County was added to the San Francisco County suit, filed last month by Voter Action. The suit also names California, which this year approved the use of the disputed voting machine - the AccuVote-TSX, built by Diebold Election Systems, based in Allen, Texas.

Many counties returning to paper ballots

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Many counties returning to paper ballots

By Chris Metinko | Contra Costa Times - One of the first counties in the state to embrace electronic voting is headed back to paper -- and it's not the only one. Alameda County residents going to the polls June 6 will be asked for the first time in five years to fill in ovals on paper ballots rather than casting their votes on costly touch-screen machines.

"It's a little bit of back to the future," joked Elaine Ginnold, the county's acting registrar of voters.
The decision to go back to paper stems from changes in state law that toughen requirements for touch-screen machines and render the county's equipment inadequate.

Seven Counties Dismissed from California Voters Lawsuit to Block Use or Purchase of Electronic Voting Machines

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Voter Action Press Release

Seven Counties Dismissed from California Voters Lawsuit to Block Use or Purchase of Electronic Voting Machines

Apr 26 2006 | Humboldt, Marin, Placer, San Luis Obispo, Trinity, Tulare, and Santa Barbara Counties Opt for Paper Balloting Citing Cost, Accuracy and Security Concerns

 For Immediate Release:

County to Upgrade Voting Machines

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County to Upgrade Voting Machines

By Noam N. Levey | LA Times - Officials opt to improve InkaVote, rather than buying an electronic system, until standards improve.

With much of the country still struggling with new electronic voting systems, Los Angeles County has once again stuck with a go-slow approach.
County supervisors Tuesday voted to spend as much as $45 million in state and federal dollars to upgrade the county's current InkaVote balloting system to comply with new federal voting guidelines, rather than purchase a substantially more expensive electronic system.

Voter group sues to ban touch-screen system it has called vulnerable to hackers seeking to change results

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Voter group sues to ban touch-screen system it has called vulnerable to hackers seeking to change results

John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer | San Francisco Chronicle - A group of California voters is challenging Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's approval of a controversial touch-screen voting system the group claims is vulnerable to hackers looking to change election results.

The suit, put together by the voting rights group Voter Action, asks a San Francisco Superior Court to nullify February's conditional certification of Diebold Election System's AccuVote-TSx electronic voting system and ban the purchase or use of the system for the November statewide election.

California Voters, including Dolores Huerta, File Lawsuit to Halt Use or Purchase of Diebold Electronic Voting System

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Voter Action Press Release

California Voters, including Dolores Huerta, File Lawsuit to Halt Use or Purchase of Diebold Electronic Voting System

Mar 21 2006 | Illegal Computer Code, Security and Disability Access Problems Cited

For Immediate Release: 

Tue Mar 21, 2006 | Reuters Article

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Tue Mar 21, 2006 | Reuters Article

SAN FRANCISCO - Some California voters and activist groups sued the state's top election official on Tuesday in an effort to reverse the certification of certain electronic voting machines made by Diebold Inc.

The suit, filed in Superior Court in San Francisco, is the latest salvo in an ongoing dispute about the security of Diebold electronic voting machines, focused on Diebold's TSX touch-screen system.

Manufacturers demonstrating new printers in Nevada were embarrassed when machine failed to recognize votes

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Manufacturers demonstrating new printers in Nevada were embarrassed when machine failed to recognize votes

By Ian Hoffman | Tri-Valley Herald - California Democratic lawmakers killed legislation on Thursday that would require electronic voting machines to offer a paper trail for the next statewide election Rejection of the paper-trail bill could delay, but not prevent, use of a popular safeguard on electronic voting until after the 2006 primary election.

Los Angeles Democrat Judy Chu, chairwoman of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, pulled the bill from consideration, her staff said, because of concerns about cost.
A few days before, a major voting-machine manufacturer was embarrassed by the apparent failure of its latest machine to accurately reflect votes in Spanish during a demonstration in the state capital.

Paper trail showed the machine missed votes in Spanish

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Paper trail showed the machine missed votes in Spanish

VotersUnite | Sequoia in the News - California

In a demonstration of its Direct Recording Electronic voting machine with a paper trail, Sequoia demonstrated that its machine failed to report four votes in Spanish.*
Notice that this demonstration CAN ONLY mean one of two things:
1) The voting machine didn't record the votes correctly, or
2) The printer didn't print what the voting machine recorded.

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