New Sequoia Voting Machine - Stuff it, Just Stuff it Like a Thanksgiving Turkey!

Just stuff it, stuff it! Sequoia's brand new "Image Cast" voting machine, "cutting edge" technology. What can I say but OMG and ROFLOL. Really!

Here's a first hand excluse report with photos on Sequoia's new voting machine offered to New York.  Some have already been shipped out to counties even though the machines have not obtained full certification.  You can stuff one of these machines by hand just like you would a Thanks Giving Turkey.

Ballot Stuffing Holes, Illegal USB Ports Add to Sequoia/Dominion Voting System Flaws 

By Rady Ananda and Andi Novick

...Up to ten cardstock ballots can be stuffed at once.... The 'black hole' of fraud, now built into our so-called democratic electoral system through the nationwide use of theft-enabling software, just got bigger.  This BMD was approved by New York's testing authorities and shipped to counties for use, but look at the gaping hole they missed. 

...When asked on August 7th about the slotted hole enabling ballot stuffing, a Dutchess County election worker advised, "Yeah, we noticed that.  We'll have to address that."  

Certified for use in New York, Sequoia/Dominion's ImageCast ballot marking device (BMD) was designed to allow voters with special needs to create their own paper ballots unassisted. But a series of problems continue to plague the BMD and its scanner's certification.  The system comes equipped with a convenient slotted hole that allows anyone to stuff ballots directly into the locked ballot box.  It also comes equipped with USB ports that illegally facilitate network, internet and wireless access.  Hundreds of documentation discrepancies prevent full certification of the system for counting the votes in 2009, and the lab approved to certify it is now being investigated for shoddy methodology and collusion with vendors.

About those USB ports:

It also allows portable hard drive access through which malicious code can be inserted to subvert the vote count in what is called a "sneakernet" attack.  Hackers can easily corrupt the software that counts the votes. 

Perhaps Sequoia/Dominion simply doesn't care that New York bans network capability, and ordered standalone voting systems.  Maybe it hopes to lobby a change in the laws.  Maybe they thought network capability would escape notice.  Or maybe they believe eight Phillips screws can secure the system from network or wireless access.  

Just stuff it. By hand.  In the "convenient slotted hole.." Just slip the ballots in through the crack. More - these machines have a fUSB port making it much easier to install "changes" 

It seems to me that New York is better off with levers and one accessible machine per polling place until the vendors produce some better machines.  The new machine seems to be a combo of optical scan/DRE touchscreen all in one.   (like a TV with built in VCR) Read on. This is "bleeding edge" technology that seems very sloppy indeed.

You can read the full report, 3 pages long here at Op Ed News