"Over the past year and a half, I have led the charge to restore integrity, trust and confidence to the office of the Secretary of State," said McPherson. "Parallel monitoring is an important security measure to ensure the reliability of electronic voting machines used in California. The results of the report confirm for voters that their votes were successfully recorded November 7, 2006."
In all counties and precincts where the parallel monitoring program took place, said McPherson in a release, the actual results exactly matched the expected results for all election contests after adjustments were made for the noted discrepancies that were caused by human errors.
The program provided for random selection of electronic voting systems in eight of California's counties, covering four types of electronic voting systems currently approved for use in California. The eight counties that participated in the parallel monitoring program were: Kern, Orange, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Mateo and Tehama.
The parallel monitoring teams consisted of 44 individuals, including Secretary of State staff as well as independent technical experts, who simulated actual voting conditions on Election Day in order to determine the accuracy of the machines in recording, tabulating and reporting votes.
