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Chris Kaye reportingBlack Box Voting recently conducted tests of the state's new voting machines in Emery County. The group says that the machines can be tampered with.
Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris says they don't have a problem with electronic voting, but they don't like the type of machines Utah purchased.
Bev Harris: "If you have a charge account at Radio Shack and a little extra time on your hands you can actually own those elections by hacking the machines and manipulating the way the programs work."
Lt. Governor Gary Herbert told KSL's Doug Wright, Utah's machines have a paper back-up system.
Gary Herbert, Lt. Governor: "I think that should give everybody confidence that their votes being registered accurately and if it comes down to a recount in fact the paper ballots will in fact take precedence."
Black Box Voting prefers a another machine, made by the same company that Utah purchased it's new system from, that takes a picture of each ballot cast.
