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Voting system maker fields Riverside County's security questions
11:28 PM PDT on Wednesday, May 2, 2007

By KIMBERLY TRONE
The Press-Enterprise

Survey: What, if anything, should be done to improve the security of ballots in Riverside County?

Sequoia Voting Systems representatives said Wednesday that they welcome Secretary of State Debra Bowen's rigorous review of voting technologies in use by California counties.

Ed Smith, vice president of quality, certification and compliance for Sequoia, told Riverside County's election review panel that the company has turned over its equipment and source codes to Bowen's office for testing.

The source codes are kept private by manufacturers, but critics of electronic voting have called for open-source software to increase transparency in voting.

Bowen has said she will issue findings by Aug. 3 on whether the voting systems used by California counties comply with the federal Help America Vote Act.

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