Goes into effect in 2006??
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03:25 PM Nov. 21, 2003 PT
SAN FRANCISCO -- California will become the first state requiring all electronic voting machines produce a voter-verifiable paper receipt.
The requirement, announced Friday by California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, applies to all electronic voting systems already in use as well as those currently being purchased. The machines must be retrofitted with printers to produce a receipt by 2006...
...In addition to the voter receipt, Secretary of State Shelley called for the creation of a technical oversight committee as well as additional requirements for software testing and auditing and new security protocols for manufacturers. He also called for random field testing on election days to ensure that voting machines are functioning properly.
Stanford computer science professor David Dill, who also served on Shelley's voting task force, said California's forward-thinking move should reverberate throughout the nation. "There's going to be a tidal wave emanating from California and heading east. California is historically a leader, especially when it comes to technology issues.
"This breaks the vicious circle where the vendors say they're not producing printers because they say there's no demand for them," he added. "Now vendors are going to be required to produce these machines and everybody else (in other states) will be able to buy them, too.
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