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 for a thorough examination. At that time she also ordered a report 30 days after delivering it to the Court - which should have been today.
Three weeks after the report was delevired, on September 24th Judge Feinberg ordered it not to be released. 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.
This report needs to be released now, not after the election. "Of the people, by the people, and for the people" is not just a slogan, it is supposed to be the core value of the law.
Strangely enough, the last armed revolt against the government in the US was in Athens, Tn. in *1946*. The cause? Voting issues ...
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/2/1985_2_72.shtml
Three weeks after the report was delevired, on September 24th Judge Feinberg ordered it not to be released. 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.
This report needs to be released now, not after the election. "Of the people, by the people, and for the people" is not just a slogan, it is supposed to be the core value of the law.
Strangely enough, the last armed revolt against the government in the US was in Athens, Tn. in *1946*. The cause? Voting issues ...
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/2/1985_2_72.shtml
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- kennymotown
- 1 year ago
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God i hate NJ. I live in it, i love it.
I wish i knew what to do!
Its not like calling my attorney general ever solved anything.
Everyone is too selfish to spend any time on anything that doesn't Directly affect them and their own little world.
Sure it affects them, but god forbid they have to get up and demand change.
Untill we all are enslaved and powerless we won't even lift a finger. and by then of course, will be too late.-
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- deeblackangel
- 1 year ago
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