NOT AGAIN: 'Just Push the Yellow Button, Vote as Many Time as You Want' on Sequoia E-Vote Systems!

[BradBlog]

HERE WE GO AGAIN: 'Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote as Many Times as You Want' on Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines!
New Vulnerability Discovered on Touch-Screen Systems Made by One of Country's Largest Voting Machine Companies Will Affect Elections in Dozens of States!
California's Secretary of State Bruce McPherson Denies Knowledge of Vulnerability Well After His Office Had Been Notified…

"Just push the yellow button and you can vote as many times as you want," Tom Courbat, an Election Integrity advocate from Riverside County, California informed The BRAD BLOG tonight. Not that we're in any mood to report more such stories, but this seems to be a big one. A very big one.

It seems there's a little yellow button on the back every touch-screen computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into "Manual Mode" allowing them to cast as many votes as they want.

Concerns about the flaw were first reported some thirty days ago to California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's office by Ron Watt, a Tehama County, CA precinct inspector who has been a poll worker in the county for the last fifteen years. And yet, as recently as a radio interview last Tuesday, McPherson — who has been crowing about having the country's most stringent security process for voting systems — denied he was aware of any security issues with Sequoia systems...

COMPLETE STORY, TRANSCRIPT OF RESPONSE FROM CA SOS OFFICE:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3714



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[livvy]

1. Allow me to be the first....K & R...It just gets worse every day. n/t

[Land Shark]

21. allow me to be the first TO SUE on this, as I did a year and a half ago

please see the link referenced at this bradblog comment link: <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3714#comment-125320>

[annabanana]

2. So now The Vote has the same validity as an

online poll? Hmmm.. we usually win those..
(just sayin')

[Roland99]

3. And this is the voting systems firm accused of ties to Chavez?

[ClintonTyree]

6. Yeah........

with supposed ties to Democrats. :eyes: Right........ :grr: I smell bullshit, a TON of bullshit.

[sunnystarr]

29. maybe Chavez did it for us lol

after all he does think Bush is Diablo ... I just cracked up when I heard this today and all I could think of is that commercial with the big red fix it button. How sweet it would be if we could steal this one this time in every state. It would sure be better than the dream I had the other day. It was election night and Rove and Dean were each fixing central tabulators ... sort of like an eBay bid. Each was frantic to be the last one. It ended up that each and every election in every state was exactly tied with no recount possible. Now that would be the perfect time for Venezuela's yellow fix it button lol.

[EFerrari]

4. Douglas Adams would have loved this - an Anomaly Button.

lol

[lapfog_1]

5. Our elections are really the result of the "Heart of Gold"

operating near our planet.

"Senator Clinton LOSES race to return to the Senate!!" "Stunning Upset" the headlines will scream...

Meanwhile... two missiles fired from North Korea fall to the earth having been transformed into a sperm whale and a bowel of petunias... and the last thought that the whale has before impacting into a northern island of Japan was "Oh no, not again!".

[fasttense]

7. So have the repukes figured out that if they can hack the vote

so can their opponents? Cheating is fine as long as you are the only one cheating. When everyone knows how to cheat, it doesn't work anymore.

[Thegonagle]

8. These touchscreen machines are just horrible!

I can't believe anyone ever thought they would be a good idea anywhere. (Well, Katherine Harris and Ken Blackheart, but they're evil un-Americans.)

They're a step backwards, back to the old paper-free lever machines, except that they're so much less reliable.

Everyone, and I mean everyone needs to support laws requiring paper ballots that can be run through optical scanners, and if necessary, run through again if there's any problem with the machine in the precinct. And if there are more problems--any doubt what so ever--they can even be counted (gasp!) the old-fashioned way--by hand.

[OnionPatch]

9. We're in Riverside County!!!!

Amazing! I knew these people were corrupt!

Hmmmm......can I reach that little button when I go to vote? :evilgrin:

I'll have to spread the word.

[StraightDope]

10. "... can I reach that little button when I go to vote?"

That would make you as bad as them. Don't sink to their level...

[Joe Bacon]

16. Why Not?

You know the Republicans will do it. Turnabout is fair play!

[StraightDope]

17. Either you believe in fair and honest elections...

Or you don't. You can't have it both ways. I'd be just as pissed if it had been Dems stealing elections for the past six years. We are better than that.

[OnionPatch]

28. That was a joke

I am for *honest* elections! However, I wouldn't mind too much if the other side was worried about us a little bit for a change.

[mom cat]

11. Vote early. Vote often!

[MazeRat7]

26. *tee hee.... good one.

[Supersedeas]

12. Shhh, the Media doesn't want to discuss this until long after the Pubie results are final

[Bozita]

13. Brad is on NOW with Thom Hartmann

[cascadiance]

14. This is the ultimate enablement for VOTER fraud!

The Republicans claim that election fraud isn't their concern, but voter fraud is. Well, how come McPherson's so focused on the hard ways that voters can defraud the system when they easily can just go up now and press the yellow button, something he doesn't have a problem with! Sheesh!

[Lil Red]

34. It sounds like this is about election fraud.

Voter fraud is when voters try to cheat the system; election fraud is when the system tries to beat the voters.

Lil Red

[cascadiance]

35. It is election fraud, but could be positioned as "voter fraud"...

... for all of those Republican wackos that think that's the sole problem with our voting systems. This makes it easy for someone to come in and vote as a "voter" in a fraudulent manner. But you are right that it is a case where the line gets blurred. Even though an illegal immigrant could come in and perhaps be allowed to vote his vote after the original voter voted his, the illegal immigrant would still have to get past the screeners somehow. I could see a family coming in and a parent saying to their underage kids, "Hey, you can vote too now Charlie! Just go punch in the folks you want, or just punch in yes after I pick them for you now that I'm done with mine!"

[ProgressiveFool]

15. What earthly function could such a button serve?

Fucking ludicrous. Who thought that one up?

[kiahzero]

18. Debugging, probably

Bad idea to make it a button, though.

[Land Shark]

23. this link explains other functions of button and it gets more interesting...

i sued on this a year and a half ago, so they know ALL about it but haven't changed it. (check out esp the link to my lawsuit with the specific paragraphs referenced)

<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3714#comment-125320>

[Tiggeroshii]

19. Efficiency knows no bounds

:sarcasm:

[cyberpj]

20. Denver Post promotes the "yellow button" as a machine activator!

Election judges grapple with new voting machines
TALLY FORTH
By Katy Human
Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated:11/02/2006 02:45:06 AM MST


Helen Garcia completes a session on Denver's computerized voting machines Tuesday. Granddaughter Star Garcia, 8, right, lent a hand. Counties across the state are training workers on the new equipment and new security requirements. Jeffco trainees were warned to be prepared for a long, busy day. (Post / Helen H. Richardson)Halloween night, the star trainee at a session for Denver election judges was 8-year-old Star Garcia, who wore sparkly cat ears and a black mask.

Star's grandmother, Helen Garcia, 68, and two other adults stood in front of one of Denver's newest voting computers pondering how to activate it.

Star walked around back.

"Right here," said the catgirl. "It's that yellow button."

The computer screen lit up and the adults laughed.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4588675

[AzDar]

22. It's not going to get better on it's own. DEMS NEED TO ACT!!!

Crumbelievable!!!

[Done]

24. I hope every voter will pledge not to push that button n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

25. I'm glad we have optical scanners that read a paper ballot (at least if

the tallying software is rigged the paper ballots can be inspected)

but if I voted on one of those machines, I'd have to try the yellow button just to see for myself.

That's amazing.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

27. What is it with these guys and the freakin' color yellow?

Yellow Magnets...
Yellow ribbons...
Yellow belly chicken hawks...

YELLOW BUTTONS!

[Fitzgibbon]

30. Can you honestly think

that a return to paper ballots and manual scrutineered counts is the only way to have an open election?

[SoCalDem]

32. 5th graders and Kiwanis Clubs have been doing it that way forever

seems to work FINE :) Canada too :)

[MzNov]

31. I was being sarcastic last week saying I'm going to vote twice

since the Diebold's are so messed up. This story gave me chills when i read it.

I think I'm going crazy with all of this stuff sometimes.

:crazy:

:dem:

[Kablooie]

33. This election may be a farce no matter who wins.

We're going to have both sides claiming that the other side cheated and trying to nullify the votes.

Whoo boy. We're in for one rocky ride after next Tuesday.