For all of you who thought I was crazy for harping on the possibility that voting machines were rigged to skew an election one way or another… uh… I damn well told you so!
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/20/voting-machine-sourc.html
Basically this proves that the logical check sum that most election processes in the United States require is simply not enough insurance (and it never has been). The check sum only verifies that votes have not been added or dropped. It does not prove that some percentage of votes haven’t been tallied in column B when they were meant for column A.
We need Verified Voting immediately; and if that is technologically impossible – we need to go back to hand counted paper ballots until verified and source code visible machines can be made.
As for Sequoia specifically? I’d like to see an explanation for why skewing source code is needed if they have any integrity at all. It took effort to add the skewing routines, effort that must have already been used. I you are not sick to your stomach thinking about what this means already, for the last several elections; please take a deep breath and start reading again.
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