While you were away from your desk - McPherson certified Sequoia

[Wilms]

How did he do that? I thought we had to wait for the machines to get federally certified.

As best I can tell, they haven't. http://www.nased.org/certification.htm

Sequoia Touchscreen with Paper Trail Certified, With Conditions

March 21, 2006

Yesterday California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson announced that he has certified voting equipment manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems. The equipment includes Sequoia's electronic voting machine with a voter-verified paper audit trail printer, which is designed to satisfy both the federal accessibility and state security laws.

As reported today in the Oakland Tribune, it is uncertain whether counties will purchase the newly certified equipment before the June 6 California Primary election. According to the article, Sequoia has "informed many counties that it needs three or more months to deliver after a sale."

A few counties that owned earlier models of Sequoia's touchscreens without the paper trail printer will need to either use paper ballots in June, modify their existing equipment with a printer unit, or purchase entirely new machines before the June Primary. Riverside County chose the last option, and has already taken delivery of the new equipment. In Shasta, however, the registrar of voters put her board of supervisors on notice a few weeks back that she may fail to comply with the state paper trail law.

Like the recent Diebold certification, Sequoia's came with conditions, many of which focus on the physical security of the removable memory card used in both vendors' electronic voting machines. There are new questions being raised, however, about whether these kinds of measures are adequate. Harri Hursti, the finish computer programmer who exposed security weaknesses in Diebold's optical scan voting system, recently traveled to Utah to take a close look at Diebold's latest electronic voting machine, the TSx. Access to the TSx was granted to Mr. Hursti by Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk. More details about this developing story are available from Bev Harris' Black Box Voting web site.

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http://calvoter.org/news/blog/2006_03_01_blogarchive.html#114296425692304171

[EFerrari]

1. Kick

[rumpel]

2. Exactly, while I blinked.

Just noticed your post after I posted it, too.

It's also in the 3/21 thread. Just in case.

[Hissyspit]

3. Of course he did. The corrupt ass.

"New questions raised about whether the conditions are adequate?" They are not new questions.

[EFerrari]

4. I'm so mad I can't even type so will just kick for now.

:kick:

[rucky]

5. Is it time to storm the statehouse yet?

and (metaphorically) kick some Ah-nold ass?

[freedomfries]

6. call in landshark

he knows all about sequoia.

[Land Shark]

9. Do you really need to know anything more? A partial review will do n/t

[bvar22]

7. Time for a 21st Century Boston Tea Party....

only this time it will be BBV machines in the harbor!

[Chi]

8. Why would they get rid of one SoS who scrutinized these machines..

For another SoS who sneaks them into use.

I just can't imagine why, but I'm sure it's coincidence.


:freak:

[bleever]

10. Time for a class-action suit against McPherson?

SOS approves POS machines; voters SOL.


:mad:


Edit: Already in progress! See here:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x721876

[FogerRox]

11. Which Sequoia equipment? DRE, right . .?

Advantage or Edge? Both were certified to 1990 VVSS. Only the Edge, IIRC, at this time has a printer available for VVPB.

[Wilms]

12. WinEDS/Insight/400C/Edge w/VeriVote

(CA) Status of Voting Systems

Last Updated: 3/20/06

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/vendor_status_spread.pdf

[FogerRox]

13. Ahh yes, it flips votes in Spanish, how very cool.

IIRC the EDGE was the DRE that LandShark chased out of his part of Washington.