‘Rithmetic

Another example of how new voting machines are failing to do their basic job: record and count votes.

Apparently, Sequoia has failed to build a number of voting machine that can add correctly. In both the Democratic and Republican primaries, the total tally for votes cast differs from the sum of votes cast for each candidate.

Sadly and unsurprisingly, Sequoia’s response to the error was to threaten the messenger, rather than address the problem. Doesn’t speak well for their company or their product. Of course maybe the state of New Jersey should pay Sequoia using the company’s own algorithm. After all if Sequoia considers these machines adequate for elections, it should consider their math good enough for payment.