Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines Subpoenaed in NJ

[BradBlog]

Source: Star-Ledger, BRAD BLOG



Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines Subpoenaed in NJ
Judge Orders Mandatory Testing of Machines After Company Previously Threatened Legal Action Against Princeton Professors if They Dared To Examine Machines...

Please note: The subpoenaed machines are the same failed Sequoia AVC Advantage touch-screen voting systems scheduled for use in Pennsylvania in the important upcoming Democratic Primary!

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[ramapo]

1. That's my voting machine! n/t

[bunny planet]

3. Mine too and the sooner they get rid of them the better.

I have absolutely hated voting on the vapor machines in the 2006 election and the primary.

[annabanana]

2. So.. Who's going to do the testing?

I hope it's that Princton Prof!

[defendandprotect]

4. ...but why would they want to fix primaries . .. ???

:nuke:

[halliburtonsux]

5. Here is the actual link, from nj.com

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

Subpoenas issued to re-examine voting machines by Diane C. Walsh/The Star-Ledger Tuesday April 08, 2008, 6:01 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.

Election officials in Bergen, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Ocean and Union counties were instructed to turn over the machines by April 15. Activists trying to persuade Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg that electronic voting machines should be discarded succeeded in convincing her that examining these counties' machines is critical to their case.

"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.
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[FogerRox]

13. We've started to audit Essex results from Feb 5th, we have problems too

Meeting next week to plan strategy.

[whistle]

6. Do all of these touch-screen voting machine subpoenas mean

...that we may see voting back on punch cards or even paper ballots come November?

[FogerRox]

14. Not touch screens, these are older push buttons designed in the early 1980's

[BradBlog]

20. Punch cards, no. Paper BALLOTS, maybe. If we're lucky... (n/t)

[bonito]

7. K&R

[defendandprotect]

8. Thank you--!! I'm in Union County . . .

And I continue to send this stuff along to my Mayor & Town Council --- silence so far ! --
and town newspaper Editor ---

Believe it or not, I don't think that the voters in NJ have really caught on to the entire meaning of this yet ---

Especially that these machines were being introduced during the mid-1960's --- !!!!

And then we wonder how America has been so destroyed?

[FogerRox]

15. No, the zilog (z-80) chip used in the Advantage is from 1978

8 mghz IIRC.

[defendandprotect]

30. No -- I didn't mean EXACTLY these machines . . .

Especially that these machines were being introduced during the mid-1960's --- !!!!

BUT computer voting was being introduced during the mid-1960's . . .

See: Votescam - The Stealing of America non-fiction by Jim & Ken Collier

These were two journalists in Florida who wanted to do a story on Florida elections and they
decided that one of them would run for office. Which they did.
On Election night they watched their tally remain constant and then a big increase ---
followed by "a computer breakdown." When the election coverage resumed, their votes went back
to the lower figure. They decided to investigate -- found how corrupt the system was even then --
and signed a book deal with a major publisher. However, when the books hit the bookstores,
they were suppressed --- taken off the shelves.

Their family keep a website going to inform the public --
and you can read or scan all of their book there ---

http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm

[hisownpetard]

9. K&R!

[Jersey Ginny]

10. Millions already wasted on these crap machines. NJ knew these machines

were a problem and spent the money anyway. I hate wasteful disrespect for our tax dollars.

[FogerRox]

16. 27 yr old computers, for top dollar, really obtuse concept.

[Yes We Did]

11. Voting Machines in PA should be hauled off too.. I think they're rigged for Clinton and Rendell

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Philly doesn't use the ones in the OP but use

these:

http://www.phillyelection.com/engweb.htm

Still, there are plenty of ways to screw with the election here like changing the polling place at the last minute, not delivering machines on time, broken machines, not opening the polling place on time, hiding machines in warehouses without tallying, incomplete voting rolls books, not having enough poll staff, etc., etc.

[Hekate]

12. State by state and county by county, we will get our country back!

This is very hopeful news. :bounce: Someone -- maybe Molly Ivins -- said, "George W. Bush is not stupid, but he thinks the American people are." And he is wrong again!

Hekate

[FogerRox]

17. Brad, not whellchair complaint

[Kool Kitty]

18. Rachel Maddow had one of the county clerks

responsible for certifying the results from these machines on her show about 3 weeks ago. the clerk said that she was told by the company that if she had these machines tested by the Princeton profs, they were going to sue the county and the profs. I'm so glad to hear this news, thanks!!!

[BradBlog]

21. See the full linked story...

...For details (and the actual emailed threat) from Sequoia. And much more. It's an amazing story. Trust me. Check it out, and don't miss the "Mike Gibbons/Kwaidan" part concerning the "blonde nymphomaniacs".

Seriously.

[burrowowl]

19. Same machines probably gave

Bu$h victory in NM 2004

[Twist_U_Up]

22. Election fraud as usual.

and people still blindly believe in this 2 party system.

The game is rigged folks

Ill give you all a hint on who wins in Nov. ............
The candidate who is a CFR member.
just sayin

[Senator]

24. K&R

[catgirl]

25. The company blames the poll workers for the discrepancies

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.

[Kurovski]

26. Kick. (nt)

[Ellipsis]

27. kick

[Kurovski]

28. Kick. (nt)

[Zorra]

29. Kick