Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
An inspection by Princeton’s Ed Felten of summary tapes not previously inspected from Sequoia Advantage voting machines used in New Jersey adds more evidence that Sequoia has misrepresented the cause of voting machine failures last February. Some of the summary tapes actually show that the total number of votes recorded on the machines is not accurate. That could not have happened under Sequoia’s nonsensical explanation that it was poll worker mistakes. It is clear that an investigation must be carried out with no involvement by the vendor.
Links to today’s most notable voting new stories, including the above, follow below as usual…
- CO: Mesa County – Storage of voting machines not so costly
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/04/040508_11BVote_machine_storage.html - FL: Guest Columnist – Reform the primary system and abolish the Electoral College
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080405/COLUMNIST13/804050741/-1/newssitemap - FL: Election officials show off new optical voting machines
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/apr/04/30gtelection-officials-show-off-new-optical/ - NJ: NJ Election Discrepancies Worse Than Previously Thought, Contradict Sequoia’s Explanation
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1274 - NJ: Princeton Prof: Sequoia Voting Machine Failure in NJ Worse Than Previously Thought
https://bradblog.com/?p=5870 - OH: Editorial – Brunner’s courage
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080405/OPINION02/804050311
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I wish Debra Bowen and Jennifer Brunner would give pedro cortez a call. PLEASE…show him what real kahunas are!
On another note, I think Bobby Kennedy Jr. would make a GREAT VP for Obama!
It is really striking, in reading this post by John, to what degree these companies are counting on us not paying attention to what they’re doing in order to stay in business. Instead of investing in people who are smart and know how to provide secure systems, who actually thrive on big challenges like the one presented by a national computer voting system, with a business model based on providing a good, high-quality product for America, they’ve invested in sheisters who behave like petty criminals. Amazing.
Is this a Texas-thing? (And pardon to all law-abiding Texans who earn their livings legitimately. I’m a Californian who still has the Texas rip-off of California by Enron on the brain.)
Hey Linda, remember these companies just might get bought up by military complex…we wouldn’t want our congress to lose their profit margins now would we:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/cont...view/1477/135/
i am a sequoia insider, executive, have important info, please contact me.
“B” –
I sent you an email after I saw your first inquiry a week or so ago, but didn’t hear back from you. Have now tried sending from a different address, in case the first got sent to spam for some reason.
In either case, you can email me here anytime and we can pick things up there.
Careful Brad. It’s unlikely a Sequoia “executive” would contact you publicly or at all. There aren’t that many. It would be easy to identify them and they wouldn’t risk the exposure like this.