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Report: NJ voting machines easily hacked

A New Jersey judge ordered the release of a report highly critical of the security or lack thereof in 10,000 voting machines that will be used Nov. 4 and ordered increased security at polling places. The report says the machines can be hacked in seven minutes and are susceptible...

Tags: Machine, Security, Richard Koman, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, Firmware, Litigation, Business Operations

Blog posts 2008-10-20

eVoting systems come under fire

As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...

Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-20

E-ballot software wins vote of confidence

E-ballot software wins vote of confidenceHow does this eliminate shenanigans?I don't know enough details about this, but isn't there the possibility that the electronic verification system could say that you voted one way online, while telling the vote-counters something else? This is one place where I think open-source is...

Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, Paper Roll, software, Art Cassel, Soubirous, Brian Floyd, Sequoia Voting Systems

Discussion threads 2004-07-19

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eVoting systems come under fire

eVoting systems come under fireNot truly independent review...I'm sorry, but if Sequoia is hiring the outside vendor to conduct the audit, then the external parties' independence is already suspect.State vs FedRunning elections is a State power. I am always leery of stealing power from the Sates and moving it...

Tags: Quality, e-voting, standards, Federal Reserve Board

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Reports on eVoting continue to give it poor marks for security

I ran across three different articles on eVoting over the last little while that interested me:E-voting systems vulnerable to viruses and other security attacks, new report finds - This report documents the efforts of two teams of security researchers from UC Berkeley and UC Davis my alma mater. The...

Tags: Security, Team, E-voting, Phil Windley

Blog posts 2007-08-07

Feinstein asks for probe in FL election

Sen. Diane Feinstein of California is calling for a "top-to-bottom" investigation into the House race in Sarasota County, FL, where no one can explain why 18,000 ballots didnt include a vote for a hotly contested House race, CNets Anne Broache notes. Feinstein, the chairwoman of a Senate panel with...

Tags: Elections, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-02-18

Venezuelan firm to sell off e-voting company

Smartmatic Corp., a Venezualan company, has agreed to sell Sequoia Voting Systems, the third-largest e-voting manufacturer in the US, The Washington Post reports. Smartmatic bought the company from a British concern last year and the the company had been the subject of a federal investigation into its ties with Venezuelas...

Tags: Smartmatic Corp.

Blog posts 2006-12-25

About those voting machines ...

Writing in Forbes, security expert Bruce Schneier says electronic voting machines are flat-out "a grave threat to fair and accurate elections." Much of our election security is based on "security by competing interests." Every step, with the exception of voters completing their single anonymous ballots, is witnessed by someone...

Tags: e-voting, security

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Another voting official 'satisfied' with e-voting

Despite criticism that they didnt look hard enough, supervisors in a California county approved an outside report saying the countys electronic voting systems are secure, reports The Oakland Tribune. Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland made a deal with Alameda County that the voting system must get a green light...

Tags: e-voting

Blog posts 2006-10-12

Two new e-voting vendors try to sell to local govts.

The New York Times reports on two newcomers to the e-voting industry. The companies - AutoMark Techical Systems and Avante Intl. Technology - may prove to be surprising dark horses in the election of e-voting vendors or little more than write-in candidates. AutoMark is the brainchild of Eugene M....

Tags: Avante Intl, AutoMark Techical Systems, ballot

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Cook County evoting machines delay vote tabulation

Electronic voting machines caused problems in Chicago's Cook County as election workers were unable to transmit vote tallies in Tuesday's Democratic primary, the Washington Post reports. Votes for an important local race, Democratic nominee for Cook County Board president, were delayed until Wednesday. llinois has received more...

Tags: Landon Neal, Cook County

Blog posts 2006-03-23

Sun wins injunction against MS in Java dispute

Sun wins injunction against MS in Java disputeJohn T. Chambers must goVia my blog at http://www.newerawisp.blogspot.comYesterday I asked readers accross the Internet to write to John T. Chambers, President of Cisco Systems regarding Black Hat confrence and Michael Lynn Saga. since then Things at Cisco systems moved in the negative...

Tags: Java, Microsoft Corp., Sun Microsystems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., NetSolve

Discussion threads 2005-07-30

Fight over e-voting leaves election plans as casualties

Fight over e-voting leaves election plans as casualtiesVote for Bush in '04....so you can get drafted and have a slug pumped into your skull from some phony foisted war lobbed on to some poor arab country so that Bush and Co. can realize their dream of ruling the universe.BTW, why...

Tags: WINDOWS USERS, Now IT, ballot, e-voting, Diebold Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-05-20