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<h1 class="pageTitle">Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security</h1>
<div class="submitted"> By <a
href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/user/appel">Andrew Appel</a> -
Posted on October 2nd, 2008 at 6:45 am </div>
<p>A
judge of the New Jersey Superior Court has prohibited the scheduled
release of a report on the security and accuracy of the Sequoia AVC
Advantage voting machine. Last June, Judge Linda Feinberg ordered
Sequoia Voting Systems to turn over its source code to me (serving as
an expert witness, assisted by a team of computer scientists) for a
thorough examination. At that time she also ordered that we could
publish our report 30 days after delivering it to the Court--which
should have been today.</p>
<p>Three weeks after we delivered the report, on September 24th Judge
Feinberg ordered us not to release it. This is part of a lawsuit filed
by the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, seeking to
decommission of all of New Jersey's voting computers. New Jersey mostly
uses Sequoia AVC Advantage direct-recording electronic (DRE) models.
None of those DREs can be audited: they do not produce a voter verified
paper ballot that permit each voter to create a durable paper record of
her electoral choices before casting her ballot electronically on a
DRE. The legal basis for the lawsuit is quite simple: because there is
no way to know whether the DRE voting computer is actually counting
votes as cast, there is no proof that the voting computers comply with
the constitution or with statutory law that require that all votes be
counted as cast.<br>
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<p>More:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/judge-suppresses-report-voting-machine-security">http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/appel/judge-suppresses-report-voting-machine-security</a><br>
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