Santa Clara County is facing the issue of secure, tamper-proof, electronic voting. The issue came up recently when the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters recommended that the county acquire touch-screen DRE machines from Sequoia Voting Systems. These machines do not provide a voter-verifiable audit trail.
More info on the important issue of the risks related to electronic voting is available here, here and here.
here’s a link to a story I wrote that includes references to Santa Clara county and it’s former reg. of voters.
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/2003/05_08/index.html