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Santa clara postpones { March 4 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5109600.htm http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5109600.htm Posted on Wed, Feb. 05, 2003 Santa Clara County postpones buying electronic voting booths By Katherine Corcoran Mercury News The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors delayed choosing a vendor for a new electronic voting system Tuesday, citing questions about cost, security and accessibility of the new machines to the disabled. The board, under federal court order to replace its punch-card system before the March 4, 2004, presidential primary, received a recommendation from staff to negotiate a contract with Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland to implement 5,000 touch screens in 1,000 precincts, a system that will cost $20 million. But supervisors decided they needed more time to consider the move to electronic voting after hearing from several computer scientists, who said that the system could be easily manipulated or tampered with. More than 100 computer scientists and experts have signed a petition asking that any electronic voting system include a way for voters to receive a paper copy that will verify the vote they recorded electronically. With the proposed Sequoia system, ``there's no assurance that the vote that appears on the screen is the one that's recorded,'' said Peter Neumann, principal scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park. Sequoia officials said safeguards are programmed into the machine to prevent tampering and to check for accuracy. But they also said if the supervisors want machines to produce voter-verifiable paper ballots, Sequoia would add that capability. Supervisor Jim Beall said he wanted more information on whether the machines will be accessible to people with disabilities, including the blind. Board Chairman Blanca Alvarado said she also is concerned about costs. While $9.5 million is supposed to come from the state, she said there's no guarantee the county will be reimbursed given the budget crisis. The registrar of voters chose Sequoia after reviewing proposals from three vendors, basing their decision in part on input from consultants, a county technical team, and potential voters, who tried all three systems. County staff recommended Sequoia because it had the best system for handling the county's multilingual ballots. The board will take up the issues again in work session at 2 p.m. Tuesday and is scheduled to make a final decision Feb. 25. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact Katherine Corcoran at kcorcoran@sjmercury.com or (408) 920-5330.

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