California's Top-to-Bottom Review of Voting Systems

Results:

Here is a simplified Score Card telling what changed.

Here is a summary of the Sequoia source review document.

Secretary Bowen's Aug. 3, 2007, Press Release about Decertification/Recertification Diebold, Sequoia, Hart systems.

For more information, see the Top-To-Bottom Review website.

My written testimony for the public hearing on the Top-To-Bottom Review, July 30, 2007.

Background:

Secretary Bowen in a press release on March 22 announced a "thorough top-to-bottom review of the voting machines certified for use in California" and asked for input by March 30 on a draft of a list of criteria to be used in the Review.

The Public Comments are posted on the Secretary of State's Top-To-Bottom Review website.

Here are brief, selective highlights:

Disclaimer: The highlights are by Jerry Berkman, not by the Secretary of State's office.
Jerry Berkman