Wired: CA Bans eVote Machines

["Joe Pezzillo" <jpezzillo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I know this may have been sent around already but I finally got a 
chance to read through it...Why can't we have elections officials like 
this guy? I particularly like how they are pursuing criminal action and 
he's going to charge the vendors, quoting the article:

"He also said that he was passing along evidence to the state's 
attorney general to bring criminal and civil charges against 
voting-machine-maker Diebold Election Systems for fraud."
...
"...indicating that the vendors caused the erosion in voter confidence, 
so they would have to pay for the solution.
 "I don't want a voter to not vote on Election Day because the only 
option before them is a touch-screen voting machine. I want that voter 
to have the confidence that he or she can vote on paper and have the 
confidence that their vote was cast as marked," Shelley said.

<http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2>

Also, remember that CA has a mandatory 1% sample verification count of 
all elections as part of their standard operating procedures, too, from 
what I understand, so there's even a chance those paper ballots will be 
counted correctly.

Meanwhile, back on the ranch in Colorado...