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

[1.jim.march at gmail.com]

Typed on my phone...

So far the NJ concerns involve the precinct terminals.

Voting systems are certified end-to-end as one complete system with a single certification number issued by the feds.

If I'm right and major pieces at the central tabulator aren't certified, then the whole thing must be scrapped.

Legally, it's not a voting system.

Jim





-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Scott-Fleming <angussf at geoapps.com>
Sent: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:12:45 Pacific Daylight Time
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] A follow-up to my Election-related SQL question



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:



------- Included Stuff Follows -------

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. 

--------- Included Stuff Ends ---------  



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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