Daily Voting News For March 21, 2008
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
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?
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NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems’ Claims About Third Party Reviews and Testing of Its Election Equipment – Their
Misleading Half-Truths vs. The Facts LINK
National: Sequoia Voting Systems site hacked LINK
National: Sequoia e-vote audit scrapped (and OMG robots!) LINK
National: Sequoia Voting Systems Admits To Hackers Attacking Their Website LINK
National: Sequoia Voting Systems Website Hacked LINK
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. LINK
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 LINK
Colorado: Paper ballot bill up in smoke LINK
Colorado: Plan to Use Paper Ballots Is Reversed in Colorado LINK
Colorado: Voting bill dead LINK
Colorado: Proposal for paper election killed LINK
Colorado: Clerks' power killed bill Unified front spelled doom for measure mandating paper ballots LINK
Florida: Palm Beach County voters say goodbye to touch screens LINK
Iowa: House approves funds to upgrade voting machines LINK
Iowa: Iowa Citizen Groups Applaud Paper Ballot Legislation LINK
Iowa: Iowa House approves voting machine plan LINK
New Jersey: Editorial - Bring in the ref LINK
New Jersey: eVoting systems come under fire LINK
New Jersey: Voting Machine Maker Threatens Legal Action Against Auditors LINK
New York: Planned Lawsuit Challenges Constitutionality of E-Vote Counting LINK
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