The Courts vs. Sequoia & the media

by: kwilkinson

Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 01:19:43 AM EDT

I was pleased to see today's ruling regarding the discrepencies in last Feb's NJ primary vote, from the Star Ledger:

Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg ordered election officials in Bergen, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Ocean and Union coun ties to submit the machines by Tuesday after activists, seeking to have the electronic voting machines discarded, succeeded in convincing her that examining the counties' machines is critical to their case.
Nineteen counties are equipped with Sequoia... Last month, the Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey, which includes all county clerks, urged the state Attorney General's Office to call in independent experts to examine the machines. No action was taken, however.

Obviously, Sequioa is suing in response, from the Trenton Times (my bolding):

Sequoia Voting Systems filed legal motions this week to block subpoenas ordering counties to turn over a few of their machines to activists who want to investigate the discrepancies.
As many as 30 of Mercer County's 600 machines were affected...
A hearing is scheduled for April 25 before Superior Court Judge Linda Feinberg in Trenton, Sypek said.

Ok, so voters, citizen groups and citizens who want their vote counted are termed 'activists'? Is Rush Holt an activist? I assume he wants independent review of the discrepencies. What scientist wouldn't? I hope he is offering the hope of federal financing for NJ to actually have a paper trail by Nov, which I saw alluded to here in the last month or so, now that the legisislature punted.

According to Penny Venetis:

The activists are represented by Penny Venetis, a professor at the Rutgers University law clinic.
"Sequoia is not a party in the case and has no right to interject itself now."

So what do we call Sequoia lawyers, lobbyists, 'communications', 'public relations' folks who are making sure that the integrity of their systems are not questioned? And what are they called in the MSM?