Sequoia voting machines has been troubled by allegations of vote irregularities before. (see here [1], here [2], here [3] and here [4] for typical examples). Now Slashdot is reporting [5] that a new analysis of the computer code used by these machines indicates there is probably some truth to the allegations.
The existence of such code appears to violate Federal voting law: “Sequoia blew it on a public records response. … They appear… to have just vandalized the data as valid databases by stripping the MS-SQL header data off, assuming that would stop us cold. They were wrong. The Linux ‘strings’ command was able to peel it apart. Nedit was able to digest 800-MB text files. What was revealed was thousands of lines of MS-SQL source code that appears to control or at least influence the logical flow of the election, in violation of a bunch of clauses in the FEC voting system rulebook banning interpreted code, machine modified code and mandating hash checks of voting system code.”
Of course, this barely rises to the level of news in the formerly democratic USA [6]. It’s certainly not the only company to fail these sorts of tests [7]. (See here [8] also) When asked, the 54% of the American public that still votes [9] responded that they were too busy with football season and prime-time TV to care. The remainder was too turned off by rampant corruption and sickened by close ties between government and large corporations to participate in sham elections anyway.
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