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Sequoia Voting Systems Publicly Confirms BRAD BLOG Report on Hart InterCivic's Hostile Takeover Attempt

With Deadlines Past and Looming, Intense, Often Acrimonious, Background Negotiations Underway Between All Involved Firms

While Both Clients and Employees Are Kept in the Dark...

... leading company VP, part-owner, and press spokesperson Michelle Shafer to issue a company wide email, just minutes after the report was ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Sunday, April 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5915
Posted in Categories: Hart InterCivic, Sequoia Voting Systems
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The NJ/Sequoia Voting System Mess Unraveled and Reraveled

The State Misleads, Some Counties Change Their Mind, as Sequoia Officials Remain Willing to Say or Do Anything Necessary to Deceive the Public in Hopes of Saving Their Company...

... Sequoia's spokesperson, VP and part-owner (for the moment) Michelle Shafer, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want to talk to us anymore for some ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 12:02 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5897
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Sequoia Voting Systems, New Jersey, HAVA, Election 2008
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EXCLUSIVE: HART INTERCIVIC ATTEMPTS HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF SEQUOIA VOTING SYSTEMS

Desperate to Stop the Deal, Sequoia's Owners Frantically Seek Funding, Legal Options, All of Which Have so Far Failed Enough to Lead the Judge Working on the Case to Regard One Such Legal Argument as a 'Conspiracy Theory'

Merger of Two Companies Would Likely Create New E-Voting Powerhouse, Face Federal Scrutiny, Come as Surprise to Sequoia's Current Clients...

... of SVS --- including CEO and President Jack Blaine, and VPs Michelle Shafer and Edwin Smith (whose names BRAD BLOG readers may recognize) --- just 60 ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 12:55 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5885
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Lou Dobbs, Hart InterCivic, Sequoia Voting Systems, New Jersey, Election Fraud, New York, San Francisco
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BREAKING: Sequoia Touch-Screen Voting Machines Subpoenaed in NJ

Judge Orders Mandatory Testing of Machines After Company Previously Threatened Legal Action Against Princeton Professors if They Dared To Examine Machines...

... the vote tallies after the Feb. 5 presidential primary. Michelle Shafer, a spokeswoman for Sequoia in California, said her company would try to ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 4:21 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5880
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Sequoia Voting Systems, Pennsylvania, Election 2008, Princeton University
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This is Who Sequoia Voting Systems Has Chosen to Test Their Machines Instead of Princeton

Meet Mike Gibbons of 'Kwaidan Consulting': Seeking 'Well Endowed Blonde Nymphomaniacs'...Or 'Jesus Christ, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein,' Depending on Whose Paying...

... as if the constant predilections of Sequoia VPs Michelle Shafer and Edwin Smith to slap "kick me" signs on their own backs wasn't ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 at 8:02 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5839
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Sequoia Voting Systems, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Election 2008, Princeton University
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Sequoia Voting Systems Website Hacked

... and removed the "intrusive content," Sequoia spokeswoman Michelle Shafer said via e-mail. Sequoia made "security enhancements" to protect the ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 9:59 am PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5831
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Sequoia Voting Systems, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Election 2008, Princeton University
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'Daily Voting News' For February 23, 2008

... a Republican vote. Naturally the Sequoia spokeswoman, Michelle Shafer, did all she could to minimize the problem while misinforming the public ...

Blogged by John Gideon on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5736
Posted in Categories: Daily Voting News
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Sequoia E-Voting Machines Reporting Inaccurate Totals in New Jersey

Post-Super Tuesday Canvass Reveals Discrepancies Between Internal Printouts and Memory Cartridges on DRE Systems in Five Separate Counties

Same 'Tamperproof' Machines Recently Hacked by Princeton University Professor, Also Failed to Start Up Properly on Election Day...

... as expected and well-paid. Sequoia's spokeswoman, Michelle Shafer, says that the company is working with election officials to determine ...

Blogged by John Gideon on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 2:45 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5718
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Sequoia Voting Systems, New Jersey, Election 2008, Princeton University
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Battle for Election Integrity 'Fought and Won by Activists' Says LATimes in 2,800-Word, 2-Part Series Which Doesn't Bother to Quote a Single One of Them...

... shame and her recent hibernation, comes company spokeshole Michelle Shafer to mislead the LATimes' still-underinformed readers at the very ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5626
Posted in Categories: Diebold/Premier, Debra Bowen, California, Election Reform, Sequoia Voting Systems, Voting System Certification, HAVA, Los Angeles Times, Mainstream Media Failure, Riverside County, San Diego, Los Angeles
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VIDEO: A Quick Update to Dan Rather's 'Trouble with Touchscreens' Report

And a Promise of More to Come...

... ourselves and so far, Sequoia and their spokesperson/VP Michelle Shafer have failed to explain how the scheme happened or who was behind it. ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Thursday, September 13th, 2007 at 10:35 am PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5060
Posted in Categories: ES&S
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Sequoia's Documents Fail to Answer Serious Questions Raised in Dan Rather Report

Papers Released by the Company Prove Nothing, May Be from 2000 Primary Election in Florida Instead of General Election Where Malfeasance Has Been Alleged...

... and lead spokeswoman for Sequoia Voting Systems, Michele Shafer, responded in a press release to the charges made, on camera, by seven ... specialist interviewed said she would have expected. Shafer responded in her statement by promising to deliver exculpatory documents ...

Blogged by John Gideon on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 5:35 am PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=4998
Posted in Categories: Election Irregularities, Florida, Sequoia Voting Systems, Election 2000
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'Daily Voting News' For August 25 and 26, 2007

... for something about the “evidence” that Sequoia’s VP Michelle Shafer promised would prove the recent “Dan Rather Report” was wrong; it ...

Blogged by John Gideon on Sunday, August 26th, 2007 at 2:45 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=5007
Posted in Categories: Daily Voting News
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'Daily Voting News' For August 24, 2007

... have the most confidence in punch-card voting. So, while Michelle Shafer and David Beirne of the ETC seem to like to add findings together to ...

Blogged by John Gideon on Friday, August 24th, 2007 at 8:00 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=4999
Posted in Categories: Daily Voting News
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Media Finally Question the Relationship Between Elections Officials and Voting Machine Companies

(Thank You Steven Harmon!)

... professional liar/damage control expert/document doctorer, Michelle Shafer, when she says: "There's nothing odd about our relations with our ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Monday, August 20th, 2007 at 8:18 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=4984
Posted in Categories: Accountability
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Riverside County, CA, to Hold Sequoia Accountable for Lies, Faulty Voting Machines?

If So, Let the Fraud Suits Begin!

... Sequoia's congenital liar and "crisis management" expert, Michelle Shafer, could use a hand right now scrubbing and rewriting old documents and ...

Blogged by Brad Friedman on Saturday, August 18th, 2007 at 3:35 pm PT
URL: https://bradblog.com/?p=4973
Posted in Categories: California, Sequoia Voting Systems, Riverside County, Accountability
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