Re: Sequoia Voting Machines (was Guess they didn't use an iSeries)

Believe it or not, I agree.

there should be point-of-transaction, voter verifiable paper backup
for every single vote cast and random samples of paper votes should be
verified against machine counts.

This really need not be brain surgery, and it's just too important not
to do right.

On 3/31/06, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Its looking like all the electronic systems are fatally flawed then?
> Maybe we'll stay with proved and tried systems?
>
> If we have two Republican-dominated e voting machine companies, and one
> left-leaning company, that is still wrong.  Two rights don't equal a
> left.  You need three rights to equal one left.
>
>
>
> rick baird wrote:
> > Speaking of Sequoia Voting Systems - I saw this just today:
> >
> > http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/14194451.htm
> >
> > ....Smartmatic International's [aquisition] of California-based
> > Sequoia Voting Systems, whose machines serve millions of U.S. voters.
> > That Smartmatic -- which has been accused by Venezuela's opposition of
> > helping Chávez rig elections in his favor -- now controls a major U.S.
> > e-voting firm should give pause to anybody who thinks that replacing
> > our antiquated butterfly ballots and hanging chads will restore
> > Americans' faith in our electoral process.
> >
>
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