




Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic? 254
whoever57 writes "Ed Felten is showing a scan of the summary from a Sequoia voting machine used in New Jersey. According to the paper record, the vote tallies don't add up — the total number of Republican ballots does not match the number of votes cast in the Republican primary and the total number of Democratic ballots does not match the number of votes cast in the Democratic primary. Felten has a number of discussions about the problems facing evoting, up to and including a semi-threatening email from Sequoia itself."
Update: 03/20 23:30 GMT by J : Later today, Felten added an update in which he analyzes Sequoia's explanation. He has questions, comments, and a demand.
Maybe the votes were not placed? (Score:5, Informative)
Sheesh, why does this have to be so difficult. We can conduct trillions of dollars of business electronically, but we still don't have an effective digital voting system? I think the conspiracy here is by someone who hates technology likes to kill trees for paper balloting, not that digital voting is being rigged.
Re:Not only that... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Maybe the votes were not placed? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Slashdot Polls (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:You cannot prove correctness at all (Score:3, Informative)
Arbitrary program code cannot be proven correct, true. However, program code can be designed to be provable.
Open source how? (Score:3, Informative)
If Sequoia really were ready to commit mass voter fraud, I doubt they would have too many moral issues with violating the principles of open source while they're at it.
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Re:Minor correction: (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Bigger fish to fry (Score:3, Informative)