The New Jersey voting-machine lawsuit and the AVC advantage DRE voting machine

  • Authors:
  • Andrew W. Appel;Maia Ginsburg;Harri Hursti;Brian W. Kernighan;Christopher D. Richards;Gang Tan;Penny Venetis

  • Affiliations:
  • Princeton University;Princeton University;-;Princeton University;Princeton University;Lehigh University;Rutgers School of Law, Newark

  • Venue:
  • EVT/WOTE'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Electronic voting technology/workshop on trustworthy elections
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

As a result of a public-interest lawsuit, by Court order we were able to study, for one month, the hardware and source code of the Sequoia AVC Advantage direct-recording electronic voting machine, which is used throughout New Jersey (and Louisiana), and the Court has permitted us to publicly describe almost everything that we were able to learn. In short, these machines are vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks on the voting process. It would not be in the slightest difficult for a moderately determined group or individual to mount a vote-stealing attack that would be successful and undetectable.