September 12, 2005

"Elections officials caution about fraud in paper records"

"Elections officials across California are waging 11th-hour opposition to using paper records for verifying electronic ballots, partly arguing that the printouts -- as well as the electronic voting machines themselves -- are vulnerable to fraudulent programming."

The full article is available here.

The association is opposing SB 370, which the Legislature recently approved. The Secretary of State has expressed his opposition to SB 370, which requires the voter verified paper audit to be used for the one percent manual recount required by law, and in any recount where the paper audit and electronic results differ.

Update:

Kim Alexander offers this response to the position of the Association on SB 370.

Posted by Randy Riddle at September 12, 2005 09:07 AM