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NY-23, Sequoia and the Private Corporate Takeover of Your Once-Public Democracy

By Brad Friedman Northern NY News Editor's Note: This in-depth study of the issues in NY-23's e-voting pilot program was written exclusively for The Gouverneur Times. Sequoia's storied history of election failure began at least as far back as 2000, though the evidence of their duplicity would not become known -- and even then just barely -- until 2007 when seven whistleblowers from the company, including Quality Control employees, appeared on camera and by name in a breath-taking investigate report on HDNet. The employees' stunning revelations were that they had been given no choice, despite protestation after protestation, to use inferior paper stock in making the ballots for Florida only in the 2000 Presidential Election.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on November 30, 2009 (boomark / email).