Sequoia Makes Like Diebold And Gets Hacked By Princeton!!

[IndyOp]

Sequoia Makes Like Diebold And Gets Hacked By Princeton

A New Jersey Attorney Will Ask A Judge To Decertify Sequoia AVC Advantage Machines

A Princeton Professor Paid $86 For What A NJ County Paid $40,000 For

In a report in Sunday's The Star-Ledger it was revealed that Sequoia AVC Advantage Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines used in 18 of New Jersey's 21 counties were improperly certified for use by the state.

(Attorney Penny) 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.

"There is zero documentation --- no proof whatsoever --- that any state official has ever reviewed Sequoia machines," Venetis, co-director of the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, said in an interview. "This means you cannot use them. ... These machines are being used to count most of the votes in the state without being tested in any way, shape or form."

At the same time Princeton Computer Science Professor Andrew Appel revealed that he bought 5 of the Advantage voting machines from an on-line government equipment clearinghouse for a total of $86. Virtually identical machines were bought in 2005 by Essex County New Jersey for $8,000 apiece.

Professor Appel and his team put the 5 machines to good use according to the article.

A Princeton student picked one machine's lock "in seven seconds" to access the removable chips containing Sequoia's vote-recording software, Appel said.

"We can take a version of Sequoia's software program and modify it to do something different --- like appear to count votes, but really move them from one candidate to another. And it can be programmed to do that only on Tuesdays in November, and at any other time. You can't detect it," Appel said last week.

Sequoia Makes Like Diebold And Gets Hacked By Princeton

[Ian David]

1. The obvious solution is to pass a law that says...

... nobody from Princeton is to ever be allowed anywhere near a voting machine.

See?

Problem solved!


:sarcasm:

[IndyOp]

2. I laughed. I actually laughed out loud! You know how sometimes

people just say that, but I really mean it... :D

:hi:

[Ian David]

3. That's because I'm a comedic genius. n/t

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

8. they bought them off internet/ had been destined for dump

I am just hoping that election officials don't start sending
their old machines to the recyclers or to the dump.

The Sequoias that went to Princeton had originally been destined for
the dump.

CITIZEN-TIMES.com: $2.5M worth voting machines may head to dumpASHEVILLE — A Buncombe County elections official says the county is considering dumping nearly 500 voting machines into the landfill. ...
www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661214095

[salin]

4. proud 5th recommendation

and Wow! Hopefully this will catch the attention of some who have remained 'fence sitters' per the danger of non voter-verifiable voting.

[Stevepol]

5. Keep those lawsuits coming!!! Highest K&R!!

[bleever]

6. Hit 'em where it hurts.

K&R.

[The Doctor.]

7. Lovely...

It will most certainly be nice to see some legitimate elections in this country.

[FogerRox]

9. Well

I told Penny 18 months ago how to win that 2.5 yr old suit.






HAVA mandates Wheelchair access, the Advantage is too high, NJ counties used HAVA funds to purchase a DRE that is not HAVA complaint.

We also told her that the software used in the Advantages purchased by Essex County was not certified by the feds. That was in 2005.

I think we need Landshark in NJ, because Penny Venetis aint no shark. She has had since Oct '04 to get something done, she keeps losing.

[no_hypocrisy]

10. As I suspected. I've used paper ballots for two elections.

I wish that the ballots were not unprotected. You sign and seal them, and then leave them in a basket on a counter. I'd like to see them put in a locked box like they were money and given the security afforded to the envelopes at the Academy Awards.

[IndyOp]

11. Where do you live? I am guessing that you are describing

drop off for absentee ballots turned in at the Clerk's office?

:shrug:

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Yes. Hackensack. Bergen County clerk. Fourth floor. n/t

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

12. Andrew Appel and the Voting Machine he "hacked"

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/avc/

[Kurovski]

13. K&R.(nt)