Insecurities and Inaccuracies of the Sequoia AVC Advantage 9.00H DRE Voting Machine
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Executive Summary. The Sequoia AVC Advantage is a direct-recording electronic (DRE) voting machine used in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and other states. I. The AVC Advantage 9.00 is easily “hacked,” by the installation of fraudulent firmware. This is done by prying just one ROM chip from its socket and pushing a new one in, or by replacement of the Z80 processor chip. We have demonstrated that this “hack” takes just 7 minutes to perform. The fraudulent firmware can steal votes during an election, just as its criminal designer programs it to do. The fraud cannot practically be detected. There is
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