Study: Sequoia e-voting machines disturbingly easy to hack, ars technica.

The study was commissioned by the state of New Jersey following a lawsuit brought against the state by public-interest groups. The suit alleged that the voting machines failed to meet the standards set by New Jersey law, which requires election official to ensure that all votes are fairly counted. Critics contend that Sequoia's direct-recording electronic (DRE) machine can't be trusted because it doesn't generate a paper trail for auditing. The suit dismissed and then appealed in 2005, but was put on hold when the state legislature passed a law that would require voting machines to emit paper records by 2008.