Hard technical details/scare stories for Avante, Hart, and Sequoia?

[Scotty Allen <scotty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm trying to piece together more technical info about the
problems/inadequacies of the systems offered/proposed by Avente, Hart,
and Sequoia.  Diebold info seems to be overwhelming, but from
conversations I had at the meeting last night, it sounds like they're
out of the running for Boulder anyway, due to the bad experiences
Boulder election officials have had in the last few years with the
Diebold mail-in scanning system they've been using.

I'm looking to try and get more technical people involved, as I think a
strong technical voice saying "We think this is a really bad idea", as
well as hopefully more technical people involved with CVV.  I'm taking
the position flyer as it stands on the website right now and the updated
meeting flyer I got from Laura(thanks Laura!) to the Boulder Linux User
Group meeting tonight.  I'm also hoping to do the same thing at the
Rocky Mountain Internet User Group if and when it's rescheduled (it was
supposed to be last Tuesday, but was canceled because the strong winds
had knocked out windows at the meeting place).  I also want to try and
post a quick something to the main RMIUG list, the BLUG list, and any
other boulder specific technical lists I can find, provided I can figure
out a way to word it that doesn't get me in trouble for being off topic.

However, I'm looking to appeal to these groups from a more technical
perspective, of "listen, these systems are really not ready for
primetime, here's all the technical things that are wrong with them",
but I need to find more info about Avante, Hart, and Sequoia.  If anyone
has any technical details and/or horror stories for these systems, or
can point me in the right direction, that would be awesome.  I'm digging
through
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/blackboxvotingcgi/view_library.cgi?table=library right now, but haven't found much yet.

Thanks in advance,

Scotty
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