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May 11, 2008 Providing legal resources and election news to California election officials and the attorneys who represent them. |
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« May 2007 | Main | July 2007 » June 26, 2007 " California Secretary of State Moves To Tap ES&S's Escrowed Source ""California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has taken the unprecedented step of pursuing access to a voting system vendor’s source code located in escrow after the vendor - Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) - refused to provide it to the Secretary of State’s office as part of the top-to-bottom review of California's voting systems. "I'm not going to stand by and watch ES&S ignore the State of California and, in particular, the voters of Los Angeles County by refusing to abide by the certification conditions that were imposed when ES&S's InkaVote Plus Voting System was certified last year," said Bowen. Secretary Bowen’s letter to Iron Mountain, the escrow facility where ES&S stores its source code, is attached. Secretary Bowen announced in February her intent to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the voting systems certified for use in California. ES&S was first notified 87 days ago - on March 26 - that it had 30 days, under the conditions imposed in April 2006 by the previous Secretary of State when he certified the InkaVote Plus Voting System, to provide the Secretary of State with its equipment, a certified version of the source code, funding to cover the reasonable cost of conducting the review, and an acknowledgement of the terms of a confidentiality agreement. The company has provided the Secretary of State’s office with some voting system equipment, but nothing else. "ES&S is clearly trying to undermine the review by refusing to abide by the conditions that were imposed in order for its InkaVote Plus system to be certified for use in California last year, The article is here. Posted by Randy Riddle at 10:24 AM | Permalink. . . |
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