After Threats, NJ Clerks Call For E-voting Investigation

[kster]

By Robert McMillan , IDG News Service , 03/20/2008

A group representing county clerks in New Jersey has asked the state's attorney general to step in and investigate voting discrepancies observed in e-voting machines used in last month's presidential primary election.

The Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey wrote to state Attorney General Anne Milgram on Wednesday, asking her office to investigate problems in the state's Feb. 5 election.

"We want to know what the problems were and how do we fix them," Michael Dressler, the group's president, told IDG News Service.

Clerks from a half-dozen New Jersey counties reported discrepancies in the voting tallies generated by approximately 60 of the state's Sequoia Voting Systems AVC Advantage e-voting machines during last month's election. In most cases the discrepancy involved a one- or two-vote difference between the paper tape logged by the machine and the number of votes stored in the computer's memory cartridges.


http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/032008-after-threats-nj-clerks-call.html

[havocmom]

1. "In fact, Sequoia has now commissioned two independent analyses of the AVC Advantage machines. " *

* quote from linked article

:wtf: if the manufacturer of the equipment commissions someone, it is HARDLY independent! Or, as Havocdad said: Like a doctor being accused of malpractice insisting his best friend is the only one to investigate him.

If a corporation doesn't want it's 'trade secrets' to be seen by truly independent investigators, then they can just not sell that equipment to count the public's votes and decide the winners of elections for the public's government!

Sorry, OUR country is more important than their secrets. If they can't accept that, fuck them and don't buy their crap.

[Usrename]

2. I never have understood how counting votes is a trade secret.

one...two...three..., etc.

How is this a big secret?

[havocmom]

3. It's their software METHOD they wanna keep hush hush.

Tough scoobies for them. It's OUR democracy and it trumps their trade advantage, or we don't buy it!

Dear Sequoia: Keep all the secrets you want but you don't get to make a sale unless We The People can hire ANY experts WE want to make sure your software is tamper proof and not prone to error. If ya can't hang with that, peddle your junta-maker somewhere else!