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Sequoia's Website Targeted by Hackers

Elizabeth Montalbano writes on InfoWorld:

The Web site for a company whose e-voting machines have come under fire from election officials in New Jersey was hacked Thursday morning, according to an computer scientist who was asked to investigate voting-machine discrepancies in the state's primary election.

The "Ballot Blog" portion of the Sequoia Voting Systems Web site had no content early Thursday afternoon Eastern Standard Time (EST), and earlier in the day, there were messages on the page that it had been hacked, Princeton computer science professor Edward Felten told the IDG News Service Thursday. Felten, a critic of e-voting systems, had been asked by a group representing New Jersey county clerks to examine Sequoia machines used in a Feb. 5 New Jersey presidential primary election.

posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2008 11:21:00 AM