Sequoia Voting Systems Source Code Released

Mokurai sends a heads-up about Sequoia Voting Systems, which seems to have inadvertently released the SQL code for its voting databases. The existence of such code appears to violate Federal voting law: "Sequoia blew it on a public records response. ... They appear... to have just vandalized the data as valid databases by stripping the MS-SQL header data off, assuming that would stop us cold. They were wrong. The Linux 'strings' command was able to peel it apart. Nedit was able to digest 800-MB text files. What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election, in violation of a bunch of clauses in the FEC voting system rulebook banning interpreted code, machine modified code and mandating hash checks of voting system code." The code is all available for study or download, "the first time the innards of a US voting system can be downloaded and discussed publicly with no NDAs or court-ordered secrecy," notes Jim March of the Election Defense Alliance. Dig in and analyze.

Comments

Re:Open Source

[Sparky McGruff]

Open source is probably what Obama had ACORN use in his secret muslin elections in Kenya! He's going to use open source to ban Christmas!

Re:Hyperbole much

[icebike]

Exactly.

However, the tinfoil hat army that pummeled me in this thread and nodded me "Politically Incorrect" will never see that and you can rest assured that it will be political dogma for years that Sequoia was caught red handed by a guy who's only skill was writing a wiki page.

Thanks for the heads up.

Re:What?

[Runaway1956]

Half a brain? It seriously wouldn't take that much. Anyone more responsive than Karen Ann Quinlan could figure it out if they just made the effort.