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Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security
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by Erik Larson | October 3, 2008 at 05:37 pm
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What's in the report?
New Jersey State Judge Feinberg has chosen to violate the First Amendment Rights of human beings in order to protect the "interests" of a corporation; unconstitutional, but not unusual in the US. If the report is bogus, let it be debunked in public. If the Sequoia evoting machines machines are bogus, let this be exposed in public, before the Republicans steal another election.
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.
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I [Andrew Appel] served as the plaintiffs' expert witness and led an examination team including myself and 5 other computer scientists (Maia Ginsburg, Harri Hursti, Brian Kernighan, Chris Richards, and Gang Tan). We examined the voting machines and source code during July-August 2008. On September 2nd we provided to the Court (and to the defendants and to Sequoia) a lengthy report concerning the accuracy and security of the Sequioa AVC Advantage. The terms of the Court's Protective Order of June 20 permit us to release the report today, October 2nd.
However, on September 24 Judge Feinberg, "with great reluctance," orally ordered the plaintiffs not to release the report on October 2nd, and not to publicly discuss their conclusions from the study. She did so after the attorney for Sequoia grossly mischaracterized our report. In order to respect the Judge's temporary stay, I cannot now comment further on what the report does contain.
NOTE: The article appears to be straight reporting on an issue, but as the author is directly involved in the case I've marked this "opinion". Plus, I included my own opinionated comments in describing the article.
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at 05:52 on October 4th, 2008
Ah, yes... security through obscurity. Another way of putting it is "lying through omission", but that's just my opinion, too.
at 13:26 on October 4th, 2008
Thanks, Jordan- yeah, "out of sight, out of mind", "what you don't know can't hurt you" and "ignorance is bliss". You're right, imho, to call it "lying through omission"; the corpse media ignore facts and events that could impact the election, in favor of hyping nonsense and BS.