Saturday, August 04, 2007

California: Electronic Voting Machines To Be Restricted

Via CBS5.com.

California’s secretary of state has decertified L-A County’s voting system, and placed rigorous security conditions on voting equipment used in dozens of counties.

Debra Bowen’s decision, announced early Saturday morning, also limits the use of two of the most widely used machines by Diebold Election Systems and Sequoia Voting Systems to ONE per polling place for disabled voters.

The announcement follows the results of an eight-week security review of the voting systems used in California’s that revealed vulnerabilities that would allow hackers to manipulate them.

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