Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
As expected today’s news is mostly from California in response to the “Top-To-Bottom” Review. In their response to the California “Top-To-Bottom Review” Sequoia had this to say about accessibility:
As for the Accessibility report, Sequoia’s equipment complies with all requirements of the current 2002 VVSG as well as all California state requirements. Sequoia has worked with both national and local accessibility groups to design our voting system and we continue to do so in an effort to make all of our voting equipment as accessible as possible and continually improve our products as advances are made in technology to better assist persons with disabilities.
The fact that they can say their machines comply with all requirements is amazing. The Sequoia Edge I and II tested in California has a toe-to-knee distance of 26.5 inches. The 2002 VVSG require 30 inches minimum. We can’t expect either of the other two vendors to be any more factual in their defense of their systems.
Links to Sequoia’s excuses, and a great deal of coverage of California’s landmark reports and other voting news from around the country, is all below…
NAtional: California Finds DRE Touch-Screen Voting Systems Easily Hackable, as House Dems and PFAW Strike Deal to Use Them in American Elections Anyway LINK
NAtional: Will Kucinich Reintroduce HR6200- Hand Counted Paper Ballots? LINK
NAtional: Votescam LINK
NAtional: A Publicly Owned and Controlled Voting System Ensuring Transparency and Oversight by the People or Nothing LINK
CA: Response From Sequoia Voting Systems to the California Secretary of State’s Office on the Top-to-Bottom Review of Voting Systems LINK
CA: Hart InterCivic Responds to California SOS Top-to-Bottom Review LINK
CA: California May Get Audits Right — So What Took ’em So Long? LINK
CA: Post Election Audit Standards Report – Evaluation of Audit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California’s Manual Count LINK
CA: Voting machines breached in ‘top-to-bottom’ review
‘The veneer of security has evaporated’: Hackers given shot at California devices LINK
CA: Today’s Voting Machines Post – Prove It LINK
CA: California finds e-voting riddled with flaws LINK
CA: California voting machine security tests uncover serious vulnerabilities LINK
CA: Probe Reveals Hanky Panky With Electronic Voting Machines LINK
CA: Today’s Hearing on Electronic Voting Machines in California LINK
CA: Flaws in voting systems found LINK
CA: CA ‘Post-Election Audit Workgroup’ Recommends Improving Standards, Procedures to Ensure Accurate Election Results LINK
CA: Three E-Voting Systems Susceptible to Attack, California Team Finds LINK
CA: Study: Hackers Could Change E-Voting Machine Results LINK
CA: California finds three electronic voting systems vulnerable to hackers LINK
CA: Report: E-Voting Systems Hackable LINK
NY: New York will continue to use old voting machines LINK
OH: Elections officials find ways to replace aging poll workers LINK
OH: In Violation of Federal Law, Ohio’s 2004 Presidential Election Records Are Destroyed or Missing LINK
OH: Franklin County – Officials hoping more municipal workers will staff voting places LINK
OH: Franklin County – Part II — Squire v. Geer: Facts the Magistrate left out are even more shocking than the ones he included LINK
WA: “Sometimes Vote Suppression is as Important as Vote-Getting”: Cleaning up WA Voter Rolls LINK
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As expected today’s news is mostly from California in response to the “Top-To-Bottom” Review. In their response to the California “Top-To-Bottom Review” Sequoia had this to say about accessibility:
HAVA Cigar?
Hava has not complied with their original purpose. The only thing hava has done, is allow CRACKED MACHINES into the election process.
Fascism at it’s best.
If you really wanna comply with hava, then get a computer to print a PAPER BALLOT.
Which then will be HAND COUNTED
with PUBLIC OVERSIGHT.
Oh and make it so the WHEEL CHAIR CAN GET IN!!!
WTF!?