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i DEBRA BOWF,N ~ SECRETARY OF STATE ~ STAT$ OF CALIFORNIA <br />OFFICE OF VOTING SYSTEMS TECHNOIAGY ASSESSMENT <br />boa iith StreEt ~ Sacramento, t:Ag58i4' 'I~(9~i)6~'7144 I www.sos.ca.gov <br />December 4, 2009 <br />Mr. Waldeep Singh <br />Vice President, U.S. Opera#ions <br />Sequoia Voting Systems <br />130 Doolittle Drive, Suite 9 <br />San Leandro, CA 94577 <br />Mr. Dave MacDonald <br />Registrar of Voters <br />Alameda County <br />1225 Fallon Street, Room G-1 <br />Oakland, CA 94612 <br />Dear Mr. Singh and Mr. MacDonald: <br />I have received your request, dated June 26, 2009, to grant Alameda County <br />administrative approval for use of the Sequoia 4.0 Voting System, which includes <br />WinEDS 4.0.1168, in the 2010 Consolidated Gubematorial Primary Election and 2010 <br />Consolidated Gubematoriai General Election. System. 4.0 would be used in a blended <br />system incorporating the Sequoia Edge 2 with firmware version 5.0.24, with VeriVote <br />Printer, primarily for accessible voting for voters with disabilities. <br />As you know, Alameda County seeks approvaE to upgrade to WinEDS 4.0.1968, so it <br />can conduct ranked-choice voting (RCV) far the charter cities of Berkeley, Oakland and <br />San Leandro in the 2010 Consolidated Gubernatorial General Election. We have <br />reviewed the voter=approved RCV provisions in the charters of the three, cities to verify <br />the methods for tabulation are consistenf with those of the City and County of San <br />Francisco, which we successfully tested prior to approving San Francisco's use of <br />WinEDS 4.0.1168 for RCV elections. <br />While the request tp approve use of the voting system in Alameda County was under <br />review, the- Elections Department of the City and County of San Francisco conducted <br />Logic and Accuracy testing of its blended WinEDS 4.0.1168 voting system in <br />preparation for use in the November 3, 2009, Municipal Election. The tests revealed <br />two software errors in the Sequoia Edge 2. The first error affected the Chinese <br />character ballot review screen on the Edge 2, causing a voter who intended to return to <br />a specific contest screen by pressing the name of the contest on the review screen to <br />be returned to the wrong contest screen. The second error affected the audio ballot in <br />