California County Keeps E-Vote
By Kim Zetter
02:00 AM Sep. 29, 2003 PT
Despite the release of a comprehensive report on Wednesday that showed the Diebold touch-screen voting machines to be "at high risk of compromise," election officials in California say they have no plans to replace the machines before the upcoming gubernatorial election.
The report, commissioned by the governor of Maryland after researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice University found that the Diebold software was badly written and full of serious security flaws, confirmed that Diebold's AccuVote-TS system "as implemented in policy, procedure and technology, is at high risk of compromise."
Alameda County, which includes the Northern California cities of Oakland and Berkeley, used 4,000 of the touch-screen machines in the state's last gubernatorial election, and Alameda Registrar of Voters Brad Clark said the county will not replace the machines before the recall election on Oct. 7.
Clark, who was in the process of reading the report, said, "As soon as Diebold gets the new software update approved, we'll upload the new software, but not before this election."
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