Subpoenas issued to re-examine voting machines in New Jersey

[Melissa G]

Subpoenas issued to re-examine voting machines
by Diane C. Walsh/The Star-Ledger
Tuesday April 08, 2008, 4:59 PM

Subpoenas were issued in six New Jersey counties today, demanding that officials turn over for testing all voting machines where discrepancies were found in the presidential primary tallies.

Activists trying to persuade a Superior Court judge to scrap the electronic voting machines, issued the subpoenas in Bergen, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Ocean and Union counties. "We're entitled to this," argued Penny Venetis, a Rutgers University law clinic attorney representing the activists.

"In order to succeed in our case and show Sequoia machines are insecure and can be hacked into, we need to look at these machines," Venetis argued. Clerks in the six counties uncovered discrepancies in 60 machines when they doubled check the vote tallies after the Feb. 5 presidential primary.

Michelle Shafer, a spokeswoman for Sequoia in California, said her company would try to have the subpoenas quashed. But no motions were filed today with Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg, who is presiding over the case in Trenton.

Sequoia maintained the errors found in the presidential primary were due to poll workers pushing the wrong buttons on the control panels. The company resisted calls for independent testing of the machines.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/04/subpoenas_issued_to_reexamine.html

[tbyg52]

1. Good

I'd like to re-examine them right into the nearest harbor.....