Talk:Sequoia Voting Systems

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Here is a link to the video, transcripts, etc. that show former Sequoia employees claiming the Sequoia leadership basically helped to throw the 2000 American Presidential election (specifically in the critical state of Florida) and helped to coerce American taxpayers from a formerly reliable paper ballot system to the now notorious electronic voting system rife with the corruption we see today. It's very damning. If found guilty in an American court of law, I sincerely hope the top guilty parties at Sequoia are executed for treason. A bullet in the head for treason will be too good for them, but I don't believe in state-sanctioned torture. "The trouble with touch screens" F**king with voting in America? We'll see about that, m**herf**kers. Cowicide 21:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be some error in the Company profile. It says the company was founded at the beginning of 1900 but later it says that it was founded by three guys in 1990s. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.180.17.19 (talk) 02:09, 18 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Not to defend or minimize Sequoia's actions here, but this seems pretty like a pretty sensationalized description for any encyclopedia. "threatening" is a pretty loaded term and I'm not sure why what TechDirt or Cory Doctorow thinks is relevant. One might think Felten's own words might be a better reference. --Electiontechnology (talk) 04:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh I don't know, where better than a section of a Wikipedia article to rage against the machine? Better visibility than any blog, and to paraphrase chef Auguste Gusteau, anyone can edit. What are the views for and against moving this tantrum to this talk page and replacing it with something closer to Wikipedia's normal style? --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 21:07, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Just think what Wikipedia would become if everyone placed company letters and documents about legal confrontations here. I removed irrelevant materials belonging to the Felten case - they have no place in an Encyclopedia. --AVM (talk) 14:06, 5 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Security Group of UCSB conducted this review in the summer of 2007. They published the report July 2008. Cracking the Sequoia voting system is no longer just a theoretical exercise, with academics pointing to particular vulnerabilities. The videos shown on their department website show how they take control of the Sequoia voting kiosk by swapping a USB drive. To the election offices, everything seems normal. I think this is important enough to be included in this page.

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/voting/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.149.215.49 (talk) 21:30, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/09/10/20/2254210/Sequoia-Voting-Systems-Source-Code-Released New information regarding the source code for the voting systems, leaked, which proves that the company violated federal laws in making the code of the voting machines changeable after being certified and deployed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.25.33.182 (talk) 22:36, 21 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On 27 May 2015,‎ 2a00:14f0:e000:8192:5056:17fc:e03b:ef6b put a citation needed tag halfway through the sentence: "AVM had its roots in a number of voting machine companies founded in the 1890s, but by the 1980s, most of its business was in other fields. Nonetheless, in the late 1950s, AVM had begun investing in the development of electronic voting machines."

In the change log, 2a00:14f0:e000:8192:5056:17fc:e03b:ef6b asked "Were many voting machine companies founded in the 19th century?"

The citation given at the end of the entire sentence is the source for both the first and second half of the sentence, so I deleted the citation needed comment. Specifically, the "corporate genealogy" of Sequoia Voting Systems given in Figure 10 on page 37 of that source lists the following 19th century ancestors (with their origin dates): Myers Voting Machine Co (1892), United States Voting Machine Co (1895), Standrd Voting Machine Co (1898), US Standard Voting Machine Co (1900). Over the next decade, other ancestor companies included the Triumph Voting Machine Co (1901), The Columbia Voting Machine Co (1903?) and the Empire Voting Machine Co (1908). Douglas W. Jones (talk) 20:08, 1 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The relationship in this entry is unclear. According to Dominion, they only bought 'certain assets' from Sequoia in 2010. They never owned Sequoia, which makes sense because Sequoia later declared bankruptcy.

All this is related to the conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 GA elections.

I propose to clean this up and correct the broken links. KDIsom (talk) 16:37, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to double-check something related, and surprise surprise, it's more BS. I'm talking about Rudy Guliani's recently released deposition, which I am reading through. He claimed (under oath) that Sequoia was banned in Chicago for "fixing elections", Here's a quote:

I had been told that there was a witness that could testify that the original Smartmatic, Sequoia crooked machines were developed for Chávez in order to make sure that he didn't lose, and that was the basic Sequoia machine. Was told they all used the same software, that they fixed a couple of elections, Sequoia, Smartmatic was the company that Coomer was involved with, and that after the big scandal in Chicago, whether it's true or not, it got laid off on Sequoia. Smartmatic sort of laid it off on Sequoia as the evildoer and the answer was let us continue to do business, we'll get rid of Sequoia.

Source: https://lede-admin.coloradosun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/09/Giuliani-depo-in-Coomer-case.pdf

Not sure if this belongs in the article, but it seems a notable mention, he mentions Sequoia many times, and makes many claims about them. Angryredplanet (talk) 22:13, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, here is the relevent quote about Chicago, same source, page 72:

I also reviewed documents that they, in this case meaning Phil, got for me with regard to more of Mr. Coomer's history and found out that he had come to Dominion from a company named Sequoia, that Sequoia was a company that had been banned in Chicago and banned from doing contracts in the U.S. because of a very flawed election in Chicago that was investigated ultimately by the Congress for several years and Smartmatic was found to be unreliable, had a lot of practices that went on that would lead to making it rather easy to change votes, fix votes, rearrange votes ...

The blathering of false claims continues, but this is a notable claim about Sequoia. I was wondering if there was any veracity to it, or just total fabrication (my money is on the latter). Angryredplanet (talk) 23:39, 1 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]