'Daily Voting News' For March 21, 2008

 

In order to help get themselves out of a very real PR problem Sequoia Voting Systems has followed their recent “Half Truth” press release with an announcement that they are sending their Advantage voting systems to “Kwaidan Consulting of Houston, Texas”. This is great! Wonderful! Oh wait a minute….Kwaidan Consulting? Just who is Kwaidan Consulting of Houston Texas? They have no website though their domain name is registered. They have no phone number in Houston or Sugar Land, Texas. What expertise does this seemingly fictional Kwaidan Consulting have to review Sequoia’s software?

 

NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems’ Claims About Third Party Reviews and Testing of Its Election Equipment – Their Misleading Half-Truths vs. The Facts

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5830

 

NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems site hacked

http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9899944-57.html

 

NAtional: Sequoia e-vote audit scrapped (and OMG robots!)

http://blogs.computerworld.com/sequoia_e_vote_audit_scrapped_and_omg_robots

 

NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Admits To Hackers Attacking Their Website

http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Sequoia_Voting_Systems_Admits_To_Hackers_Attacking_Their_Website_15405.html

 

NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Website Hacked

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5831

 

NAtional: Sequoia Threatens Lawsuit Over E-Voting Machine Review

A New Jersey county asked a Princeton professor to conduct an independent review of Sequoia Voting Systems e-voting machines, which the company opposes.

http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206905157

 

NAtional: Voters prefer e-voting, but tech has limits

A recent survey found that voters generally prefer voting machines to paper ballots, but the machines have error rates that can be unacceptably high

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/21/Voters-prefer-e-voting-but-tech-has-limits_1.html

 

CO: Paper ballot bill up in smoke

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/mar/20/paper-ballot-bill-up-in-smoke/

 

CO: Plan to Use Paper Ballots Is Reversed in Colorado

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/politics/21ballot.html

 

CO: Voting bill dead

http://www.coloradodaily.com/articles/2008/03/21/news/c_u_and_boulder/news4.txt

 

CO: Proposal for paper election killed

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/20/032108_1b_voting_bill.html

 

CO: Clerks' power killed bill

Unified front spelled doom for measure mandating paper ballots

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_8644835

 

FL: Palm Beach County voters say goodbye to touch screens

http://www.bocaratonnews.com/news/local/243-palm-beach-county-voters-say-goodbye-touch-screens.php

 

IA: House approves funds to upgrade voting machines

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/03/21/news/iowa/60fc4f6c18de673386257413000ef6bd.txt

 

IA: Iowa Citizen Groups Applaud Paper Ballot Legislation

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2793&Itemid=113

 

IA: Iowa House approves voting machine plan

http://www.qctimes.com/articles/2008/03/21/ap-state-ia/d8vhuai01.txt

 

NJ: Editorial - Bring in the ref

http://www.nj.com/opinion/times/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-0/120607262373310.xml&coll=5

 

NJ: eVoting systems come under fire

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=972

 

NJ: Voting Machine Maker Threatens Legal Action Against Auditors

http://www.switched.com/2008/03/21/voting-machine-maker-threatens-legal-action-against-auditors/

 

NY: Planned Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of E-Vote Counting

http://e-voter.blogspot.com/2008/03/ny-planned-lawsuit-challenges.html

 

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