BBV: California Senate requires paper trail for e-voting machines by Jan 1

[Kadie]

enate requires paper trail for e-voting machines by Jan. 1

The Associated Press
Last Updated: May 25, 2004, 05:45:17 PM PDT

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Electronic voting machine manufacturers, already facing a July 1, 2005, deadline in California to make touch-screen machines that provide paper backup copies of votes, would face an even tighter Jan. 1 deadline under a bill that passed the state Senate Tuesday.

The Senate voted 32-0 to move up the deadline by six months. After Jan. 1, cities or counties could not buy or use electronic machines that lack a paper printout of every vote.

The bill passed Tuesday would make voting machine makers print a paper backup copy on which voters could visually verify their electronic vote. Voters would not be able to take the copy with them.

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley ordered last November that no county or city could buy electronic voting systems without a paper printout after July 1, 2005.


more... http://www.modbee.com/state_wire/story/8620009p-9490968c.html

[DieboldMustDie]

1. That's 2 months too late!

:grr:

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. Yes...

it is!

Oh Bev!

[RedEagle]

3. It's too late for those already purchased

If any counties were thinking of purchasing them, then they would be pretty remiss in not getting VVPB.

That said, it might just depend on who the county is listening to and who is lining pockets.

[OneBlueSky]

4. no it isn't . . . they can just use paper ballots in November . . .

seems to work okay in Canada . . .

[BevHarris]

5. Let's make a note of this: We still sell pencils

Paper ballots in November is doable.

[Karenina]

6. How very

Luddite of you, dear one. :kick:

[Hubert Flottz]

7. They will never be able to ship that many pencils from China.....

in time! The GOPers have a talent for ALWAYS doing just a little too little! Maybe that's why they are so Big on Viagra!(no pun intended)

R-Null probably had a hand in fixing things!

[dusty64]

8. January 1st, how

fuckin helpful. Anyone wondering if chimpo will pull off the "upset" of they decade by "winning" California?