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admin
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Post Number: 821
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - 7:48 am: | 
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Sequoia Voting Systems provides touch screen and full face direct recording electronic (DRE) voting systems, optical scan voting equipment, ballot printing, voter registration and election management software.
Customers
Some of Sequoia's customers include:
- (FL) Palm Beach County
- (FL) Pinellas County
- (WA) Snohomish County
- (CA) Santa Clara County
- (CA) San Bernardino County
- (CA) Riverside County
- (NM) Bernalillo County
- (NV) Clark County
Requesting submissions of information and links on the following:
Partners
Jaco (see post below)
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fogerrox
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: fogerrox
Post Number: 18
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:45 am: |
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Over a dozen counties in NJ use the Sequoia Advantage.
67 counties used it in 2004.
uses a Z80 processor-- from early 1980s |
admin
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Username: admin
Post Number: 1043
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:21 pm: |
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Are you kidding me? A Z80 processor?
I thought ES&S's reported use of the old 380 processors was surprising. A Z80???
Gee. Maybe we can recycle old Commodore 64s into voting machines.  |
cleanbean
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Username: cleanbean
Post Number: 48
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:20 pm: |
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Until it was sold to a Boca Raton company for a mere $16 million recently, Sequoia (owned by the British company De La Rue, which has had several contracts to make Iraqi banknotes) indirectly belonged to the Carlysle Group since De La Rue's owner, Madison Dearborn, sat on the Carlysle board. (For details about the Bush-Baker-bin Laden team on the Carlysle Group board, see Michael Moore's "Farenheit 9-ll.")
http://electioncentral.blog-city.com/on_the_mcpherson_confirmation.htm
Karla -- I'm not sure of the accuracy of the Carlysle group stories. I've read them too. My findings were that Madison Dearborn was associated with an earlier owner, Ireland's Jefferson Smurfit, and it was a very minority stake. The was a smidgeon of Carlysle Group taint at one point, but I don't know if it ever rose to the level of attaining any influence in the company, which was a subsidiary of a corporation later sold to another corporation.
Carlysle Group's head honcho Frank Carlucci is ow was on the board of another voting machine company, however: Populex. I hadn't heard much from Populex lately, but I'm going to set up a thread on it, because this week I was called by a reporter in Ashland, Wisconsin and he was told that Populex was going up for certification and contracts in Wisc.
-- Bev |
catherine_a
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Username: catherine_a
Post Number: 472
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 2:59 am: |
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IIRC the purchased Irish e-voting system also uses an unbelievably antiquated processor.
Despite this, the vendor told the government these machines would have a 20-year life span. The government actually believed this. |
admin
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Username: admin
Post Number: 1056
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, July 30, 2005 - 8:47 am: |
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IIRC was out of the Netherlands, correct? Have you heard anything about this company since its machines were booted out of Ireland?
P.S. note answer to Karla Bean above re: Carlysle Group
-- Bev |
fogerrox
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Username: fogerrox
Post Number: 17
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 11:41 am: |
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Wheelchair access/Sequoia Voting Systems
Specification -1.2.2.7
http://www.realrepublic.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=45
I measured the Sequoia Advantage- heres the down low-
http://www.realrepublic.com/forum/album_pic.php?pic_id=46
This voting machine is not HAVA compliant and cant be used in a the Federal election coming in 2006.
NJ has 6500 of these--- they need to be replaced-- to the tune of upwards of& 65 million--- |
admin
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Post Number: 1044
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 29, 2005 - 10:23 pm: |
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$65 million? Juicy pickings for someone. Somewhere I read that Diebold's entire projected revenues for 2005 for voting machines was around $100 million. |
fogerrox
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Username: fogerrox
Post Number: 24
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Sunday, July 31, 2005 - 1:41 pm: |
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Sequoia could be in dire straits-- Smartmatic bought them for a measly 16 million.
DOJ action for fraud would crush them.
HAVA section 301 may have HUGE ramifications -- nation wide |
pomerton
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Username: pomerton
Post Number: 1
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 - 4:58 am: |
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"IIRC the purchased Irish e-voting system also uses an unbelievably antiquated processor.
Despite this, the vendor told the government these machines would have a 20-year life span. The government actually believed this."
"IIRC was out of the Netherlands, correct? Have you heard anything about this company since its machines were booted out of Ireland?"
The company is NEDAP, now selling Liberty Voting Systems here in the US:
http://www.nedap.com/
The Ireland story:
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number2.9/evote
Liberty Election Systems:
http://www.libertyelectionsystems.com/default.htm |
pomerton
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Username: pomerton
Post Number: 2
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 - 5:07 am: |
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Actually, you might consider starting a new thread for this company with the links I just posted. Not sure if you want to list them as NEDAP or Liberty though. At a recent demo in NJ, NEDAP was never mentioned. It was all "Liberty, Liberty, Liberty."
[I confess I actually liked their machine as demonstrated, since to a non-expert it seemed to be working correctly. The only other machines on display were the Sequoia Advantage, which has a panoply of problems, and the Avante Vote-Trakker, which wasn't functioning properly during the demonstration.]
As to how to list NEDAP/Liberty - Your call. |
catherine_a
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Post Number: 473
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 - 6:16 am: |
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Re: Ireland's voting system NEDAP is also in a partnership (or some kind of relationship) with a company called PowerVote (UK-based; close personal connections to NEDAP).
NEDAP is part of some other, larger Dutch(?) company (Groendahl or some such). Supposedly a long-time reputable company. |
fogerrox
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Username: fogerrox
Post Number: 26
Registered: 06-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 - 7:38 am: |
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yeah--
Liberty and Avante- both have 2002 certs and may be doing big bizz soon.
Pomerton-- are you from Mercer? >wink<
The Avante DRE was up and running after a glitch. |
Bev Harris
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Username: Admin
Post Number: 2007
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 12:18 pm: |
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September 14, 2005
http://newyorkbusiness.com/news.cms?id=11718
Jaco gets touch-screen voting machine deal
by Catherine Tymkiw
Jaco Electronics Inc. inked a deal with electronic voting machine provider Sequoia Voting Systems Inc. to make touch-screen voting machines as part of two new contracts in the Chicago area.
Shares of the Hauppauge, L.I., distributor of electronic components surged as much as 24.3%, to $4.60 on Wednesday.
Sequoia awarded the multimillion dollar order to Jaco partly because of an existing business relationship where Jaco had filled orders for voting machine sub-assembly components that were put together by third party. Jaco opened a new 20,000-square-foot wing at its Hauppauge headquarters in April, allowing it to assemble flat-panel displays in house.
“We are pleased that Jaco’s new integration center has the talent that now allows them to complete the entire design and manufacturing process, providing us with one-stop shopping for voting machines that meet our customers’ demanding specifications,” said Sequoia President Jack Blaine in a statement.
Jaco expects the order to attract more custom-design LCD customers, said company spokesman Robert Savacchio. The first 3,000 units under the contract with Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia are due to be shipped by the end of this year.
Chicago and the surrounding Cook County are replacing their punch card voting technology with Sequoia’s systems, which will comply with the Help America Vote Act by notifying voters of errors and giving them a chance to correct their ballot before it is cast.
Sequoia, which has been installing touch-screen voting systems since the 2000 presidential election, also awarded Jaco a separate contract to design and manufacture 10 “full face” voting machines comprising four, 19-inch touch-screen displays. Those machines will be offered in jurisdictions, like New York state, which require the complete ballot be displayed on a single page. |
Mike LaBonte
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Username: Mike_labonte
Post Number: 24
Registered: 12-2005
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 6:28 am: |
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Has anyone looked into the Aleksander Boyd claim that Sequoia's new parent, Smartmatic, seems to have been created by Venezuela for Venezuela? The blog post linked above references Boyd's original research, which admittedly resides on a site that I view with some suspicion. I could be misunderstanding the research, too.
I don't want to feed nationalistic furor like we saw with the Dubai Ports World deal. But our voting systems are just as important to our security as our ports. It is the fact that the purported foreign control of Florida-based Smartmatic is hidden that bothers me. And election results in Venezuela are suspicious, even though the Carter Center has signed off on at least one.
Maybe it's time to start a thread for Smartmatic. |
Michael Hauser
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Username: Mike_h
Post Number: 2
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 10:12 am: |
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It would definitely a good idea to start a thread on Smartmatic. It is not misplaced nationalism that US elections should be run by US individuals, be it companies or, as it should be citizen voluteers.
Here is an interesting read by a Venezuelan blogger on how statistically improbable the results are in the only elections Smartmatic has ever run, the three last national elections in Venezuela. It's not political, just science and facts.
http://blogs.salon.com/0001330/categories/rrModels/ |
