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An indictment of the Sequoia voting system

Posted by patriot on March 30th, 2008

The Black Box forums highlight a report regarding the use of Sequoia voting machines in Arizona:

1) Appendix A is a scathing indictment of the security and legality of the Sequoia product line. Taking advantage of material that wasn’t available to California Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s top-to-bottom review team, they’ve shown that Sequoia must now be considered the least secure and most illegal black box voting system in America - “dethroning” Diebold. Appendix A is a standalone section that can be read independently of the full report.

2) Also of national interest: this report forms a blueprint on how to do central tabulator observation missions, whether as a citizen or partisan representative. By carefully observing the hardware being used and asking pointed questions and public records digging, they’ve shown that it’s possible to pierce the veil of secrecy over election (mis?)conduct.

Findings include the outsourcing of the entire mail-in vote process including the use of a private company to print, mail out, -=receive=- and scan the ballot signatures … all by a private company outside of the scope of public records access and proper accountability.

3) For any Arizona voter, the report is a must-read to see just how badly an election can be run in the 4th largest county in America! It’s also a message of hope - they can’t get away with running a system this sloppy without getting caught.

The PDF report can be downloaded here.

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