Judge Suppresses Report on Voting Machine Security

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 3, 2008 10:25 PM EDT
Freedom to Tinker; By Andrew Appel
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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. Three weeks after we delivered the report, on September 24th Judge Feinberg ordered us not to release it. This is part of a lawsuit filed by the Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic, seeking to decommission of all of New Jersey's voting computers.

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What a surprise.... techiem2 1 884 Oct 4, 2008 3:16 PM

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