To NJ: Pull The Plug On Sequoia!

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1171224582159440.xml&storylist=jersey
Excerpt:
Electronic voting machines to get legal challenge
2/11/2007, 2:57 p.m. ET
The Associated Press

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Voter-rights activists plan to mount a legal challenge to the use of electronic voting machines in 18 of New Jersey's 21 counties, saying the machines were never properly tested and are susceptible to fraud.

Newark attorney Penny Venetis, co-director of the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, filed legal notice Friday claiming that some 10,000 Sequoia AVC Advantage machines were never certified by the state.

"There is zero documentation — no proof whatsoever — that any state official has ever reviewed Sequoia machines," Venetis told The Sunday Star-Ledger of Newark.

The state Division of Elections on its Web site states that it certified the Sequoia machines in Aug. 1987, but Venetis said officials furnished no proof when she asked for it.

A Princeton University computer science professor told the newspaper that he bought five Sequoia machines from a government auction Web site that are virtually identical to the ones used in by the state.

Andrew Appel said a Princeton student was able to easily pick the machine's lock and remove chips containing the machine's computer software.

"We can take a version of Sequoia's software program and modify it to do something different — like appear to count votes, but really move them from one candidate to another," Appel said. "And it can be programmed to do that only on Tuesdays in November, and at any other time. You can't detect it."
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New Jersey led the way on gay unions, on the climate crisis, and now can lead the way on ridding this state of the Democracy suckers. I will definitely be following this story. PAPER BALLOTS is the way to go and if NJ leads in pulling the plug, hopefully all other states will follow.

proving that the version of the Sequoia Advantage, later purchased by Essex County, Was purchased with software that had no Fed certification, and had not been tested by Wiley Labs.

Furthermore the Sequoia Advanatge does not meet the HAVA mandate for Handicapped access.



Wheelchair standards, Voting System Standards 1.2.2.7 indicating that the top edge of the ballot face cannot be higher than 48 inches.




In this piture the top edge is @ its lowest position,53 inches high, the face can be adjusted to a vertical position, as indicated by 23" + 35" + 58" high. Since this machine is too high, it does not qualify for HAVA funds. Becasue Essex County NJ used HAVA funds for the purchase of the Sequoia Advantage, I see that as an illegal purchase, a violation of federal statute.

We need to get rid of them completely.