[Tfug] A follow-up to my Election-related SQL question

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 19 Mar 2008 at 18:52, Jim March  wrote:

> This is the report I've been working literally weeks on.While it's 
> about Maricopa County, Pima voters should care as Maricopa is 56% of the 
> AZ vote.
> 
> The single biggest piece (Appendix A) covers the problems inherent in 
> the Sequoia products in use up there (and by the city of Phoenix's 
> elections office). The rest covers various problems and in some cases 
> blunders by the people running the elections in Maricopa.
> 
> http://www.bbvdocs.org/sequoia/Maricopa-County-Elections-Report.pdf

Sequoia voting machines have come under fire in NJ recently ...

    E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats
    http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080320-e-voting-blocks-e-voting
    -security-audit-with-legal-threat.html or here if the above wraps
    unusably: http://preview.tinyurl.com/234ge8

    Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
      Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 20, @10:02AM
      from the lessee-nothin-into-nothin-carry-the-nothin dept.
      Government Politics Technology
    whoever57 writes "Ed Felton [sic] is showing a scan of the summary 
    from a Sequoia voting machine used in New Jersey. According to the 
    paper record, the vote tallies don't add up - the total number of 
    Republican ballots does not match the number of votes cast in the 
    Republican primary and the total number of Democratic ballots does 
    not match the number of votes cast in the Democratic primary. Felton 
    has a number of discussions about the problems facing evoting, up to 
    and including a semi-threatening email from Sequoia itself."  
    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/1340258

Here's Felten's blog entry linked to above:
    Evidence of New Jersey Election Discrepancies
    http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1266

Also, here's another one:

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NJ clerks call for e-voting investigation 
    New Jersey's attorney general has been asked to step in and investigate 
    voting discrepancies seen in e-voting machines used in last month's 
    presidential primary election  
  By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
  March 20, 2008

    A group representing county clerks in New Jersey has asked the state's 
    attorney general to step in and investigate voting discrepancies observed 
    in e-voting machines used in last month's presidential primary election.  

    The Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey wrote to state 
    Attorney General Anne Milgram on Wednesday, asking her office to 
    investigate problems in the state's Feb. 5 election. 
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http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08
/03/20/NJ-clerks-call-for-e-voting-investigation_1.html or here if the
above wraps unusably: http://preview.tinyurl.com/3x493s 
Original non-print-friendly version here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/20/NJ-clerks-call-for-e-voting-
investigation_1.html or here if the above wraps unusably: 
http://preview.tinyurl.com/325opk

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