Protest SF Mayor's praise of Sequoia voting machines
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| A new voting system based on open source software would be much
| better, fully transparent, and far less expensive. The could open the bid for
| such a system at any time. Even though no such system is currently certified,
| that work could be included in the bid.
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_patricia_070923_protest_sf_mayor_s_p.htm
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Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature
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| Microsoft’s proposed change to state law would effectively render
| our current requirements for escrow and the ability for independent
| review of source code in the event of disputes completely meaningless
| - and with it the protections the public fought so hard for.
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http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
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| "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
| blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
| exception error."
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| "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
| the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
| whether it's Windows,"
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http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
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| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
| a complex environment]...
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| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
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| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
Most vote machines lose test to hackers
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| "The vendors appeared to have designed systems that were not high assurance
| (of security)," said Bishop, a recognized expert on computer security. "The
| security seems like it was added on.''
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP&tsp=1
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