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San Francisco is considering “upgrading” their voting systems to use Sequoia machines. They are demanding that the company publicly disclose their software source code for all to see. It’s called transparency. That’s a good thing.<\/p>\nSan Francisco is considering “upgrading” their voting systems to use Sequoia machines. They are demanding that the company publicly disclose their software source code for all to see. It’s called transparency. That’s a good thing.<\/p>\n
But Sequoia is refusing. Yesterday, there was another discussion\/debate on the topic at an SF Board of Supes hearing. The San Francisco Examiner<\/i> reported<\/a> this laugh line from the Sequoia spokeshole:<\/p>\n For those just joining the fun, who may be unfamiliar with guffaw-worthiness of Bennet’s claim about concern for the security of his company’s shitty voting systems, we’ll refer you to this small<\/em> sampling of previous relevant BRAD BLOG<\/a> articles:<\/p>\n …Along with a heads up that we’ll have more — much more<\/i> — on Sequoia’s “concerns” about the security of their voting systems (or lack thereof) in a detailed investigative report in the very near future…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" San Francisco is considering “upgrading” their voting systems to use Sequoia machines. They are demanding that the company publicly disclose their software source code for all to see. It’s called transparency. That’s a good thing. But Sequoia is refusing. Yesterday, there was another discussion\/debate on the topic at an SF Board of Supes hearing. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,122,222,39,73],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-election-2008","category-san-francisco","category-sequoia-voting-systems","category-voting-system-certification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Steven Bennet, a Sequoia representative, said Sequoia won’t agree to public disclosure [of source code on voting machines] since it would “jeopardize the security to all of our customers in California and across the country.”<\/div>\n\n