CA allows e-voting in November
Wired News: State Allows E-Vote for November
SACRAMENTO, California — A panel of state election officials recommended on Wednesday to give all voters the option of voting on paper ballots instead of paperless electronic touch-screen voting machines in the November presidential election.
While officials didn’t recommend that the state decertify all touch-screen equipment, as some voting activists had hoped, they called on the California secretary of state to forbid purchases of any new types of e-voting equipment before the November election. And they want touch-screen machines already in place to be used only under the condition that voting companies and counties comply with several security procedures.
There’s some more background in the Sac Bee’s April 23, 2004 story, State’s touch-screen voting left hanging.
By Margaret Talev.