California to Require eVote Paper Trail

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November 21, 2003
State Tells Counties to Establish Paper Trail on Electronic Voting
By Allison Hoffman and Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writers

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as  
of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to  
produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes  
are properly recorded.

Late Thursday evening, Shelley placed calls to county elections  
officials around the state to tell them that any voting system that is  
currently in use or that is purchased before Jan. 1, 2006, must be  
modified or replaced to produce a paper trail. After that date, no  
county will be allowed to buy machines that can't make printouts.

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