Reply #2: CA: Diebold OUT in California. Secretary of State Backs Way Off

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There must be HUGE problems with Diebold. The Arnie picked replacement for Secretary of State, Bruce McPherson, has dumped Diebold pending further testing. Of course, his testing showed a 10% to 20% error rate. Isn’t that enough Bruce. This comes shortly after McPherson backed off of the Harri Hursti Hack Test. Hmmm….

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/13452214.htm

State refuses to approve Diebold voting machines

Posted on Tue, Dec. 20, 2005

By Edwin Garcia
Mercury News Sacramento Bureau

SACRAMENTO - Suggesting the ``security and integrity'' of electronic voting could be at risk, Secretary of State Bruce McPherson on Tuesday refused to approve the use of thousands of electronic voting machines pending a federal evaluation.

The touch-screen and optical-scan machines, made by Diebold Election Systems and used in 17 counties, including Alameda, were found to have ``unresolved significant security concerns'' with a memory card that stores votes in each machine, McPherson's elections chief, Caren Daniels-Meade, said in a letter to the company's vice president, David Byrd.

At issue is whether the removable cards, which are used to program and configure the machines, will keep data secure.

The Secretary of State's office is asking Diebold to submit the machine's source code for review by the federal Independent Testing Authorities before resubmitting the company's application for certification in California.