Voting machines in question

An essential part of Los Angeles County's voting system was decertified by California's secretary of state late Friday, jeopardizing the ability of the nation's most vote-rich county to conduct a presidential primary in February. Harrison Sheppard in the Daily News.

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen said a vendor for the county failed to provide information on time to her office as she was conducting a "top-to-bottom" review of voting systems in California.

The decertification starts the clock ticking for the county as Bowen said she will conduct her review now and could recertify the system with new conditions attached.

But Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Conny McCormack was outraged, questioning why Bowen would decertify a new system that had been reviewed and certified a year earlier by Bowen's predecessor, former Secretary of State Bruce McPherson.