Vote early and often — just push the little yellow button

Debra Bowen, Democratic candidate for California's Secretary of State, told us about this the other night on a blogger conference call. Brad Friedman follows up:

It seems there's a little yellow button on the back every touch-screen computer made by Sequoia Voting Systems, that allows any voter, or poll worker, or precinct inspector to set the system into "Manual Mode" allowing them to cast as many votes as they want.

Concerns about the flaw were first reported some thirty days ago to California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's office by Ron Watt, a Tehama County, CA precinct inspector who has been a poll worker in the county for the last fifteen years. And yet, as recently as a radio interview last Tuesday, McPherson — who has been crowing about having the country's most stringent security process for voting systems — denied he was aware of any security issues with Sequoia systems...

There's more at The Brad Blog.

P.S. As if you hadn't guessed, McPherson is a complete disaster.