Most e-vote systems should be up to snuff by June
Diebold has national hurdle to clear before state approves
By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER
After months of anxiety, California elections officials learned Wednesday that nearly a half-dozen voting systems could be ready for purchase and use in the June primary.
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Only Diebold Election Systems Inc., which has struggled for more than two years for California approval, was still in national testing Wednesday for its new flagship voting system. But state elections officials said Diebold still could clear that final hurdle and supply voting equipment to nearly a third of California counties, including Alameda, San Joaquin and Marin.
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A Huntsville, Ala., lab still is performing that examination. If it finds the vulnerabilities are limited and can be addressed by tighter physical security over voting-machine components, California officials could approve Diebold's latest touch-screen and optical-scanning machines in as little as two weeks, in part because the system already has been through state examination and public hearings.
All the other voting systems and makers — Hart InterCivic, Election Systems & Software, Sequoia Voting Systems and Populex — still face state scrutiny plus a barrage of public hearings in the first two weeks of March.
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