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Damning Report On Sequoia E-Voting Machine Security

TechDirt notes the publication of the New Jersey voting machine study, the attempted suppression of which we have been discussing for a while now. The paper that the Princeton and Lehigh University researchers are releasing, as permitted by the Court, is "the same as the Court's redacted version, but with a few introductory paragraphs about the court case, Gusciora v. Corzine." What's new is the release of a 90-minute evidentiary video — the researchers have asked the court for permission to release a shorter version that hits the high points, as the high-res video is about 1 GB in size. See TechDirt's article for the report's executive summary listing eight ways the AVC Advantage 9.00 voting machine can be subverted.

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  1. Illin with the panicillin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is she illin with the panicillin?
    Is she reelin in the panicillin?
    Is it feelin with the panicillin?
    Are you steelin in the panacillin?

    Panka Panka

    Is she liable no suitifiable no not on trial but so suitifiable
    Is she viable no suitifiable pliable style is so suitifiable
    so reliable no suitifiable shes not on file but so suitifiable
    im on the dial its so suitifiable its like im liable but more suitifiable

  2. Re:I rolled a 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    summery.

  3. Oh boy. . . by Fantastic+Lad · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Scenario #1. . . Obama wins, is assassinated, and Joe Biden, self-described Zionist, takes the reigns and the world continues on its merry way to hell. Biden strikes me as rather snake-like, although I have no rational reason for thinking this.

    Scenario #2. . . McCain and Palin take the Whitehouse through fraud and American public ignites leading to martial law. (Not likely. People are too well fed and entertained at the moment.)

    Scencario #3. . . See #2, but allow people to start really suffering under economic depression and starvation for a year or so. Throw in a few more bad things, and then martial law becomes much more reasonable to expect. Especially if McCain, life-long loser, dies and Palin the idiot paladin for god who believes Jesus will return in her life-time, steps up to the plate.

    The road to a sane future involves Obama doing three things. . .

    1. Winning the election.
    2. Turning out to really not be evil, living up to his promises, and NOT getting into any new land wars in Asia. And keeping Biden on a very short leash.
    3. Not Getting Killed.

    It's a thin road, easy to fall off. Reality will almost certainly serve up something unique and unexpected, but whatever the case, any outcome would just be an indicator of a behind the scenes war being won or lost.

    -FL

  4. Re:So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "I don't see what the big deal is with voting fraud. So what?

    true, ballot has a weak check and balance effect on some government actions, but in these cases the rigging has to be completely obvious, not stealth.

    The rest of the times elections are just a propaganda tool giving an illusion of control to the voters, making government psychologically more bearable. Voting fraud is merely a small inefficiency within the government.

    If you care about voting fraud, you believe voting makes a difference. If you believe that, you are truly naive."

    elections do a bit more than just create an illusion of control, they actually create a populist agenda for the 'puppet masters' we call politicians. as an example, when hallucinogenic drugs were rampantly used in the 60's and 70's people who were well on their way to becoming the 'establishment' suddenly learned that a small drop of a drug can make them feel like they just sat down and talked to god, or learned how to fly, or even start to taste colors or smell the way things feel. the effect of hallucinogenic factors in the brain really do change a person's personality. although I've not taken drugs i have a mental illness that is often compared to taking LSD. I am a different person because of it.

    the point? those kinds of drugs they really changed the way people felt, and they changed the way people were elected to office. it also created a war on drugs that has successfully kept 'the masses' mostly sedated and pacified with simple lies crafted by career politicians. where do you see college campuses being shut down by riot squads because of an unjust war? i'm not seeing it either, the 'war' on drugs was effective.

    elections would really matter if people could free their minds of the worries of career and family, by taking a single hit of acid, and suddenly realizing that there are people making decisions to rape and destroy the world around you all in the name of 'capitalism' and that yes, by chaining yourself to a tree you can make a difference.

    sadly, drugs that suddenly can strip away a lifetime of biases and set you free to explore the world and really see what happens when someone builds a parking lot, much less a mall, and tells you to buy buy buy, consume consume consume... what really happens is the whole ball of wax starts to go down the shitter. did you know the human race is about to wipe out the tuna fish? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081021/sc_afp/indonesiaenvironmentspeciesfishtuna;_ylt=AniRffGQIiV6L6BWQv97BY5pl88F

    yeah, a tasty fish eating fish is about 50 years from extinction. shrimp are also in danger, which would kill off a lot of other animals. but when was the last time you went into a restaurant that serves shrimp and saw a college student handcuff themselves to the front entry to tell people about the way commercial shrimping, along with commercial corn farming is causing the best shrimping grounds in the world to become a place where they're now in danger of extinction.

    nope, you don't see it, instead you see a commercial from a big auto maker extolling the 'virtues' of corn ethanol. but where is the guy warning you that it takes 36 gallons of natural and irrigated water to produce a single gallon of ethanol from corn? http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/corn-ethanol-more-water-than-other-biofuels.php water is one of our most precious resources, yet if you believe the greenwashing of the ethanol industry, you'd think that corn ethanol was saving the planet, not killing it.

    i do agree, that the system is broken. but unlike you i know that it can be fixed, albeit, with the usage and promotion of drugs that can release an individual from their 'happy little lives' trying to be a perfect sitcom family thinking of nothing but how to make a good income and have h

  5. Re:"E-Voting Machine Security" like "Microsoft Wor by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Canada uses paper ballots and counts them in a few hours. The paper ballot system is not broken. We should quit trying to fix it until we get a LOT smarter.

    Follow the Canadian lead - vote conservative this election.