A lawyer calls them uncertified. A professor calls them easy to rig

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N.J. voting machines face twin challenge

Sunday, February 11, 2007
BY KEVIN COUGHLIN
Star-Ledger Staff

The electronic voting machines used in most of New Jersey were never properly inspected as state law demands, according to a new legal claim filed by voter rights activists. Had the machines been tested, they would have proved to be a hacker's dream, the activists say.

This week Newark attorney Penny Venetis, representing a coalition of plaintiffs, will ask a judge in Trenton to decommission machines used by 18 of the state's 21 counties.

Similar models of the computerized touch-screen machines made by an Oakland, Calif., company, Sequoia, are currently being tested by a Princeton University computer scientist, who says they easily could be rigged to throw an election.

Venetis filed legal papers Friday claiming the state never certified some 10,000 Sequoia AVC Advantage machines as secure or reliable as required by law.


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1. This is the best strategy

For the longest time I've been trying to get into a courtroom in my county to ask a judge to forbid the continued use of the Diebold optical scanners we have because they contain interpreter code forbidden by federal regulation and therefore state law. So what that the (former) Secretary of State certified them. He did so in error and with blatant disregard for the law.

I know this strategy was attempted, at least in part, in the Holder vs. McPherson case last year here in CA. But that was statewide and I believe it was thrown out. I think the way to go just may be injunctive relief on the county level.