{"id":5849,"date":"2008-03-28T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5849"},"modified":"2008-03-29T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-29T10:11:08","slug":"infoworld-on-sequoias-babe-magnettech-reviewer-mike-gibbons-of-kwaidan-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5849","title":{"rendered":"InfoWorld on Sequoia’s Babe-Magnet\/Tech-Reviewer Mike Gibbons of ‘Kwaidan Consulting’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, over at tech ‘zine InfoWorld<\/em>, Robert X. Cringely takes notice of BRAD BLOG’s expos\u00e9 from earlier this week<\/a>, on the man Sequoia Voting Systems is paying to “independently” review their failed<\/a> AVC Advantage touch-screen machines (the ones that failed in NJ recently, but which are still set for use in the upcoming, crucial PA primary). He was as amused\/horrified at whom they’d hired, instead of the actually qualified<\/em> computer science professors at Princeton University whom Sequoia had threatened with legal action<\/a>, should they dare a real<\/i> examination of the company’s faulty machines.<\/p>\n

Cringely sums up our report<\/a> succinctly this way…<\/p>\n

While I was digging through the Net looking for the skinny on Sequoia Voting Systems and its mystery contractor Kwaidan Consulting<\/strong><\/a> (aka Mike Gibbons), the Bradblog’s Brad Friedman<\/strong><\/a> was doing the same. He managed to unearth a cached version of Gibbons’ MySpace page that’s just a wee bit different than the current model. Instead of a photo of Gibbons shaking hands with Bush I, this one shows a good-old-boy leaning against the hood of a pickup. The list of people Gibbons wants to meet has changed too. Instead of Jesus, Einstein, and Newton, Gibbons was looking for “a well endowed blonde nymphomaniac<\/strong><\/a> … that likes to be under the influence of Jim Beam whiskey in a dimly lit room at least 3 times a week.”\u009d (Hmm, Jesus or a busty nymphomaniac “\u201c that’s a tough call.) It’s nice to know the gatekeepers of our electoral system go shopping for their code experts in New Orleans bordellos.<\/div>\n

One small thought in response to the good Cringely here. Sequoia are not the “gate-keepers,” they just think they are, and therein lie the problems. He, we, and you<\/i> are the gate-keepers. And until now, we’ve failed horribly to keep the crooks and liars — like the folks at Sequoia and Diebold and ES&S and Hart InterCivic<\/a> (take a look at that<\/i> report please Robert, and the stunning complaint downloadable with it!) — outside<\/i> of those gates.<\/p>\n

By the way, with the crush of other news elsewhere, and even at The BRAD BLOG<\/a> this week, our rather jaw-dropping report on Gibbons (even if we say so ourselves) was largely overlooked out there by the CMSM and even the blogosphere. These stories — the embarrassing Gibbons\/Kwaidan report, the remarkable federal fraud case against Hart<\/a>, and all the others here — don’t spread themselves<\/i> around. Please do not misunderestimate<\/i> the importance of your DIGGING, REDDIT-ing, and otherwise emailing and linking up to these stories far and wide. Notifying your local media about them (include the URL when you email them), can make all the difference.<\/p>\n

We’re doing our part, and appreciate whatever hand you can lend in return. It matters.<\/p>\n

As we often say, this democracy ain’t gonna save itself. And the gates ain’t gonna keep<\/em> themselves, either.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, over at tech ‘zine InfoWorld, Robert X. Cringely takes notice of BRAD BLOG’s expos\u00e9 from earlier this week, on the man Sequoia Voting Systems is paying to “independently” review their failed AVC Advantage touch-screen machines (the ones that failed in NJ recently, but which are still set for use in the upcoming, crucial PA […]<\/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":[122,6,38,50,48,144,39],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-hart-intercivic","category-new-jersey","category-pennsylvania","category-princeton-university","category-sequoia-voting-systems","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849","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=5849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5849"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}