Designs by Emily Clare

New Jersey has a problem with its voting systems. It was been established that the Sequoia Voting System has some discrepancies in it and affects how the accuracy of the count. Union County clerk, Joanne Rajoppi went and hired a independent computer scientist from Princeton University to fix the problem but Sequoia did not like this. They do not want anyone else looking at the system because it was “endanger its ‘trade secrets’”. So the company is more concerned with saving face in the media by having someone they can control looking over the system versus a third party that might expose the system as being very faulty. This shows how companies do not want secrets leaking out but more importantly they do not want those secrets to harm the face of the company in the event the public learns of them. The more control a company has the more it can control what “face” it show to the public. An important election is coming up and Sequoia’s reputation will be on the line.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/22/opinion/22sat2.html?scp=1&sq=trade+secrets&st=nyt