June 16, 2008
"As long as I count the votes" dep't: Edward Felten
The contracts between Sequoia Voting Systems and local elections officials give the company the power to prevent any inquiry into whether its machines work as advertised.
October 29, 2006
But .... but .... but ....
... who cares if Venezuela owns a piece of Sequoia Voting Systems. It's not as if there's any way to cheat, is there?
January 21, 2006
Better late than never
The Washington Post finally reports -- a month after it happened -- about the dramatic public demonstration that the vote counts coming out of Diebold opscan machines have no necessary connection to the votes going in to Diebold opscan machines.
March 10, 2005
October 20, 2003
Can you say "undemocratic"?
Diebold is trying to use the copyright laws to stifle discussion of whether its proprietary (read: secret and unaccountable) vote-counting software, which due to the lack of paper ballots provides no audit trail whatever, can be used -- perhaps even has been used -- to steal elections. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is resisting. Update More from Tom Runnacles, who says...
July 13, 2003
As long as our software counts the votes,
what are you going to do about it?
I don't really know how seriously to take the risk that electronic voting systems are subject to undetectable rigging at the software level, but I know that it's a risk I'd rather not have to think about at all. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey (who used to be Assistant Director of the Plasma Physics Lab at Princeton) has...
