[Infowarrior] - Felten pressured by Sequoia over voting machines

[Richard Forno]

http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1265

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Interesting Email from Sequoia
March 17th, 2008 by Ed Felten

A copy of an email I received has been passed around on various mailing
lists. Several people, including reporters, have asked me to confirm its
authenticity. Since everyone seems to have read it already, I might as well
publish it here. Yes, it is genuine.

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Sender: Smith, Ed [address redacted]@sequoiavote.com
To: felten at cs.princeton.edu, appel at princeton.edu
Subject: Sequoia Advantage voting machines from New Jersey
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:16 PM

Dear Professors Felten and Appel:

As you have likely read in the news media, certain New Jersey election
officials have stated that they plan to send to you one or more Sequoia
Advantage voting machines for analysis. I want to make you aware that if the
County does so, it violates their established Sequoia licensing Agreement
for use of the voting system. Sequoia has also retained counsel to stop any
infringement of our intellectual properties, including any non-compliant
analysis. We will also take appropriate steps to protect against any
publication of Sequoia software, its behavior, reports regarding same or any
other infringement of our intellectual property.

Very truly yours,
Edwin Smith
VP, Compliance/Quality/Certification
Sequoia Voting Systems

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