According to Secretary of State Debra Bowen a public hearing has been set for September 20, 2007, to examine whether Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) sold uncertified types of the AutoMark voting machines to as many as five California counties. Those counties include San Francisco, Colusa, Marin, Merced and Solano and involve a Phase 2 edition of the AutoMark Machine. Election Systems & Software, Inc. never submitted Phase Two, a version that is substantially different from the state-certified AutoMARK Phase One, to the California Secretary of State for certification. Amador County owns the Phase 1 machines and is not impacted by this decision at this point. According to top Amador county Election Official Sheldon Johnson, the only unknown for our county- at this point- is what security procedures will be implemented for all electronic voting machines statewide. Johnson says that the state is working on the new rules but has not informed the county as to what those measures could be. Johnson anticipates the answers to these questions relatively soon. Johnson explains how the county currently uses the AutoMark machine.