Sequoia's Sinking Ship - voting machines still not certified

Even Sequoia's disabled accessible optical scanner is easily hacked - the old fashioned way by physical stuffing through a gap in the ballot box. On August 18, Rady Ananda showed how you could stuff the Sequoia optical scanners like a Thanksgiving turkey. This combo optical scanner/ballot marking gizmo is not alone in bugs, a new bug in Pierce County Washington's Sequoia machines was reported Sept 14.  An earlier bug, a different one, was found there in May this year with the result that Pierce cannot use the precinct scanners at this time.

Sequoia's Sinking Ship  by Rady Ananda   

"Right now, there is not a single voting system on the market or in use anywhere in the country that meets current federal voting standards, and very few people realize it." ~ Douglas Kellner, New York State Board of Elections Commissioner (AP)  

From New York to New Jersey, from D.C. to Florida, Sequoia Voting Systems continue to fail.  Vendor response is, we're not at fault and don't you dare study our product.  That's because experts tell us in report after report these machines are fatally flawed by design, lacking the most basic security protocols.  Yet, election managers continue to use them, and "voter advocacy" groups continue to support their use.   A recent University of California (Santa Barbara) paper by the Computer Security Group warned that "the very core of our democracy is in danger."

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