NOT AGAIN: 'Just Push the Yellow Button, Vote as Many Time as You Want' on Sequoia E-Vote Systems!

[BradBlog]

HERE WE GO AGAIN: 'Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote as Many Times as You Want' on Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines!
New Vulnerability Discovered on Touch-Screen Systems Made by One of Country's Largest Voting Machine Companies Will Affect Elections in Dozens of States!
California's Secretary of State Bruce McPherson Denies Knowledge of Vulnerability Well After His Office Had Been Notified…

"Just push the yellow button and you can vote as many times as you want," Tom Courbat, an Election Integrity advocate from Riverside County, California informed The BRAD BLOG tonight. Not that we're in any mood to report more such stories, but this seems to be a big one. A very big one.

It seems there's a little yellow button on the back every touch-screen computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into "Manual Mode" allowing them to cast as many votes as they want.

Concerns about the flaw were first reported some thirty days ago to California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's office by Ron Watt, a Tehama County, CA precinct inspector who has been a poll worker in the county for the last fifteen years. And yet, as recently as a radio interview last Tuesday, McPherson — who has been crowing about having the country's most stringent security process for voting systems — denied he was aware of any security issues with Sequoia systems...

COMPLETE STORY, TRANSCRIPT OF RESPONSE FROM CA SOS OFFICE:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3714



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[nicknameless]

1. Holy shit.

And once again, McPherson is lying his ass off.


K&R

[lapfog_1]

2. Theoretically, it beeps twice when being put into this mode

which should alert the poll workers.

Right!!! :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

there are many devices that one could carry in the pocket to completely muffle a PC sized speaker or eraser sized beeper.

Hack away my compadres... you KNOW they are going to!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Whaaa....

:wow:

[NOLADEM]

4. So they have a BUTTON for election tampering on each machine?

HOLY FUCKING SHIT.

This is TREASON, nothing less, and those involved in attempting to destroy America's democracy should be hung from the gallows.

This is an enormous crime. SOMETHING must be done.

There is NO reasonable excuse for such a (mal)function.

Hard to believe our country will put up with this. Or that our wonderful, liberal media won't scream this from the rooftops. Yet, here we are.

So damn sad.

[Vinca]

5. The "tamper button." Why am I not surprised?

Time to bring back all paper ballots and hand counting.

[tanyev]

6. The Easy Button.