San Bernardino County to defy state order

Found on Silicon Valley on Wednesday, 12 May 2004
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Election officials in San Bernardino County say they will defy a ban on electronic voting ordered by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley in November's presidential election.

In Orange County, about 2,000 voters cast ballots in the wrong races after being given the wrong computer access codes. In San Diego County, an equipment malfunction prevented more than half the polling places from opening on time. And in San Bernardino County, a vote tally was delayed for three hours because election staffers improperly entered data into their main computer.

Ten of the 14 California counties that use electronic voting, including Riverside and San Bernardino counties, could reapply for certification if they meet 23 security conditions, which county officials have said would be costly and time-consuming.

The remaining four counties -- San Diego, San Joaquin, Solano and Kern -- are banned from using their Diebold touch-screen systems in November.

So they prefer to use a technology they bought, which has proved to be totally insecure and faulty, instead of trying to get the correct voting results. You know that something is wrong when money is more important than democracy.