Princeton computer science professor and now-well known academic hacker of e-voting systems, Ed Felten, reports on his blog…
His article offers the details of the latest findings, but for the disturbing — and too-often hilarious — background on this incredible continuing scandal…
On Super Tuesday, Sequoia’s AVC Advantage touch-screen voting machines failed to boot up in many places, forcing the Governor himself to wait 45 minutes before he could cast his vote. After Super Tuesday it was found that the Sequoia AVC Advantage has misreported voter turnouts.
Sequoia offered a feeble excuse for the failure, without offering evidence to support it, which blamed both voters and poll-workers instead of themselves for the multi-million dollar embarrassment. County election officials across NJ then unanimously called for an independent investigation of the machines by Princeton computer profs Felten and Andrew Appel.
Sequoia then threatened legal action against both the professors and the counties should they undertake such a technical review of their self-described “tamperproof” machines. The counties folded to the company’s strong-arm tactics, while hoping either the state AG or SoS would commission such a review.
Sequoia’s website was then hacked, but not before they could release misleading propaganda claiming they loved third party independent reviews so much they were willing to then sponsor one on their own by selecting and paying an unknown “independent company” named “Kwaidan Consulting” to do one on behalf of Sequoia.
Kwaidan was then revealed by The BRAD BLOG to be no more than a “blonde nymphomaniac”-seeking babe-magnet named Mike Gibbons, who, after being commissioned by Sequoia for this important analysis, suddenly discovered a new-found love for George Bush, Jesus Christ, Albert Einstein, and the U.S. constitution. The babes and the Jim Beam would have to wait.
Much as those voters and election officials in Pennsylvania, set to use the exact same machines two weeks from now in the upcoming, all-important, Democratic Primary, will have to wait to see if the machines work at all. Then, of course, they will simply have to trust the reported results, no matter what the machines tell them, since it is strictly impossible to discern whether any single vote cast on them was actually recorded as any single voter intended.
UPDATE 4/8/08: Sequoia touch-screens ordered subpoenaed and examined by NJ Judge. Breaking details here…
John Boehner and Karl Rove have indicated that they believe that there will be Republican “surprise” victories in November,a view held by Bush and Cheney,no less.
Democrats are looking at the polls and are quite confident that they will easily capture the White House and have filibuster-proof majorities in Congress.
Election fraud of the kind that we are documenting here has a tendency of being dismissed as nonsense by Democrats assuming that they even have a minimal knowledge of it’s existence. I found that my Congressman had no knowledge of it when I recently brought it to his attention. Hopefully,that has now changed.
So,when we all awaken in November to discover that John McCain is our newly declared President,there will be all sorts of post mortems to seemingly explain the impossible. These explanations,however,will not likely include the real “elephant in the room”if you will,and that is the massive election fraud of the various types that we pay attention to right here.
So good luck to all who read this and be sure to prepare for the next four years if you can because many of us will not be able to even if we want to.
I hope everyone reads the linked article by Felten. The discrepancies that contradict Sequoia’s explanation are laid out plain to see.
Can Sequoia successfully stonewall a bona fide investigation this time? I say, do like Ohio did and lock those machines up and declare a crime scene. That’s our vote that’s been murdered.
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Anyway, so are they going to sue professors for even worse ‘damages’ than before?
If I am on the jury the professor walks and the bullshit Sequoia balks.
I hope the Democrats watch these kinds of incidents because it can get really serious in the Nov elections. The Repugs use all dirty tricks because they know it will get tough for them.
If the ATM machines can give you A receipt? Then the most important vote on the presidenial election should have A receipt too.