Sequoia Threatens Over Voting Machine Evaluation

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @07:31AM from the don't-look-in-there dept.

enodo writes "Voting machine manufacturer Sequoia has sent well-known Princeton professor Ed Felten and his colleague Andrew Appel a letter threatening to sue if New Jersey sends them a machine to evaluate. It's not clear from the letter Sequoia sent whether they intend to sue the professors or the state — presumably that ambiguity was deliberate on Sequoia's part. Put another clipping in your scrapbook of cases of companies invoking 'intellectual property rights' for bogus reasons." Sequoia seems to be claiming that no one can make a "report" regarding their "software" without their permission.

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Voting versus Gambling by spazoid12 · 2008-03-18 07:57 · Score: 1, Flamebait

It's really sad when the software controlling slot machines at the casino have (quite strict) legislated inspection and auditing than far exceeds what the software controlling voting machines is subjected to. :(

Let's be sure that nobody can steal a dollar; but if they can help a democrat steal an election... so be it.