California’s top election official on Friday decertified three voting systems widely used in the state but said she would let counties use the machines in February’s presidential primary if extra security precautions were taken.
The official, Debra Bowen, the secretary of state, said she made the decision in response to studies showing that the machines could be hacked.In a sense Ms. Bowen’s decision amounts to barring the machines, then reapproving their use under strict new conditions.
The decision comes amid growing concerns nationally about the security and reliability of electronic voting machines. It affects systems made by three of the four largest voting machine companies.
Ms. Bowen took her toughest action against touch-screen machines, in which a voter’s ballot is generated by a computer. She said the machines made by Diebold Election Systems and Sequoia Voting Systems could be used only in early voting and to meet voting-access requirements for the disabled.
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