{"id":6176,"date":"2008-07-14T16:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T23:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T23:24:34","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-july-14-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6176","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For July 14, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this evening’s “Featured Article”\u009d, Kim Zetter of “Threat Level Blog”\u009d at Wired reports about the failure of new Sequoia voting machines to get through state and local testing. So far about 50 percent of the voting machines delivered to the state have problems. Doug Kellner, co-chair of the New York State Board of Elections, is quoted as saying something that the Election Integrity community has known for a long time. He said, “There’s no way the vendor could be adequately reviewing the machines and having so many problems. What it tells us is that the vendor just throws this stuff over the transom and does not do any alpha- or beta-testing of their own before they apply for certification testing. Then they expect that we’ll identify technical glitches and then they’ll correct those glitches. But correction of those glitches is an extraordinarily time-consuming process. And it’s very disappointing that this equipment is not ready for prime time.”\u009d The vendors have used real elections to beta test their products without regards for the voters and this has been an ongoing process for years….<\/p>\n

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