Electronic voting still barred in San Joaquin County
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2004/08/25/news/05_evote_040825.txtAugust 25, 2004
By San Joaquin News Service
San Joaquin County remains one of four California counties still unable to use electronic voting for the November election.
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced Tuesday that 11 counties could use electronic voting after they met recertification standards.
But because San Joaquin, Kern, San Diego and Solano counties have the
Diebold TXs machines -- which were not federally certified before the March primary -- they can't use touch-screen voting in November, Shelley said.
In April, Shelley stopped all counties from using electronic voting pending several measures, such as having the option of paper ballots and banning telephone wires, Internet and wireless connections from the machines. Shelley also required that source code be available to state officials, and that poll workers receive training on the machines.
But San Joaquin County Registrar of Voters Debbie Hench said the Diebold TXs system isn't hooked up to the Internet or telephone lines. She also said that the source code is already available and that the county has poll worker training.
Diebold Inc. has agreed to defray the county's cost of running a paper ballot election in November, Hench said.
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What I want to understand is why aren't all the counties running an option of paper ballots in those counties that have the machine? Aren't they required to offer them? All voters across the country should be insisting on absentee ballots and personally delivering them to the County registrar if they can....(who knows if you can trust the mail either....)
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