Santa Clara County Grand Jury
• 2003-2004
Inquiry Into County Electronic Voting System
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Findings and Recommendations 9 findings
FI
Every voting machine is subject to manipulation by those inside or outside the process.
No recommendations for this finding
FII
Many computer novices, handicapped persons, and non-English speakers are uncomfortable with touch screen voting.
No recommendations for this finding
FIII
At the Registrar’s Office, in both the loading room and the general storage area for the machines, although a video record is kept, there is no electronic record of who enters, how long they are there or when they leave.
No recommendations for this finding
FIV
Loaded voting machines were delivered to polling places by a private trucking company and, in some cases, appear to have been left in unsecured areas.
No recommendations for this finding
FIX
Paper or absentee ballots are not provided at polling places as an alternative means of voting.
No recommendations for this finding
FV
The lack of a paper trail has caused many people to distrust electronic voting equipment. 7
No recommendations for this finding
FVI
Absentee ballots are unsecured when outside the physical control of the Registrar’s office.
No recommendations for this finding
FVII
To prevent electronic tampering from the outside, the individual voting machines and the entire system now stand alone electronically. No part of the system is ever connected to the Internet or similar electronic pathway for the transmission of information.
No recommendations for this finding
FVIII
The Registrar has been extremely conscientious, not only in working with citizens in the selection and ongoing operations of the electronic voting machines, but also in educating the general public in this new system of voting.
No recommendations for this finding
No Responses Found 1
Government entities assigned to respond to this report. No response documents have been linked in our database.
Santa Clara County County Clerk-Recorder
Elected County Office