Calif. approves e-voting in 11 counties; four no go

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)

California will allow voting at electronic voting machines in November at all but four counties, after an improvement in security measures, the state's top election official said Tuesday.

In April, California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley blasted the state's largest e-voting machine supplier, Diebold, and called for a criminal investigation into the Ohio-based firm.

The Democrat decertified Diebold's AcuVote-TSx Voting System — which was used in four counties and accounts for a third of all of California's electronic voting machines — because of problems in the March election.

He gave 11 other counties the chance to recertify their electronic voting machines if they upgraded their systems to provide a paper receipt for voters and meet other conditions. ..

In April, Shelley said that Diebold had engaged in "reprehensible" and deceitful tactics and asked the state attorney general's office to launch a probe. A spokeswoman for that office said the investigation was underway and was scheduled to be completed by Sept. 6.

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