LOS ANGELES, May 5 (UPI) -- The fight over electronic voting in California has moved to the courts with at least one county planning to sue to regain its so-called e-voting.
Riverside County's Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to sue the state's top election official to regain the right to use electronic voting machines in November, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
Five other counties may also seek court approval to use touch-screen voting machines on election day.
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, noting security and technological concerns about the machines, banned electronic voting in four counties whose machines used unapproved software. He also decertified and set strict conditions for recertifying 10 other counties, including Riverside, which intended to use the machines in November.
Riverside County officials said Shelley's ban angered them, especially because the county had used its Sequoia Voting Systems machines for 29 elections without any significant problems.
"Clearly, in California, we don't want to regress back to the more flawed systems based upon paper," said Riverside County Registrar of Voters Mischelle Townsend.
