State slates hearing to limit checks on voting equipment

Brent Kallestad
The Associated Press
Posted June 9 2006, 6:35 PM EDT

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--A proposed rule change that would prohibit counties from testing their voting equipment without state approval will be argued Monday, a measure that could create some discomfort among Florida's independently elected elections supervisors. One of the more outspoken of Florida's 67 supervisors, Leon County's Ion Sancho, conducted a test last year where elections office workers hacked into a Diebold optical-scan voting system in an effort to show that it could be made to produce false results.