Based on security and reliability problems in the March primaries California's secretary of state has decertified 14,000 Diebold touchscreen voting machines, and asked the state's attorney general to investigate Diebold on fraud allegations. Other electronic voting machines, including those made by Diebold, may be used in upcoming elections if they satisfy conditions put forth (PDF) by the secretary. These include federal and state certification, printouts of ballots, offering voters the option to use paper ballots only, making complete hardware and software documentation available to state officials, training poll workers and providing a security plan.
The specific decertification (PDF) states that Diebold's AccuVote-TSx hardware and firmware failed to receive federal qualification and disenfranchised voters in California's March presidential primary and Diebold did not meet conditions set forth in its preliminary certification last November. It is effective immediately.
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