CALIFORNIA SEC. OF STATE REFUSES TO RE-CERTIFY DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES! (For Now...)
SoS: 'Unresolved significant security concerns', 'Source Code Never Ever Reviewed'State 'Punts' Issue Back to Feds for Further Testing, State Senator Objects -- Complete Letter from SoS, Senator Bowen's Full Statement...
Late this afternoon, Sec. of State Bruce McPherson's office sent a letter to Diebold Election Systems, Inc. Vice President David Bryd, informing him that the state is declining -- for the time being -- to re-certify Diebold AccuVote touch-screen machines in the state of California pending further testing and certification by Federal authorities.
In the letter, on McPherson's letterhead (complete letter at bottom of article), Caren Daniels-Meade, chief of the Elections Division writes that "Unresolved significant security concerns exist with respect to the memory card used to program and configure" the Accu-Vote operating system and touch-screen equipment.
In a statement reported by AP, SoS spokeswoman Jennifer Kerns announced problems discovered during routine testing...by state employees and independent consultants including discovery of source code that "had never, ever been reviewed"...
Complete Story, Text of Letter to Diebold from CA's SoS, and a Press Release from State Sen. Bowen:http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002183.htm---
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