Sequoia (voting machines) up for sale...parent co. prints Iraqi $$

[Gloria]

I googled and the unamed voting machine company is....Sequoia...

Interesting that the parent company, De La Rue, prints the Iraqi currency....

I'm wondering about some hidden link to all this....




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/12/03/cnrue03.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2004/12/03/ixcity.html

Printer of Iraqi cash to make job cuts at Portsmouth
By James Moore (Filed: 03/12/2004)

De La Rue, the company with a licence to print money, yesterday said it was cutting 350 jobs as part of a shake-up to ensure it stays profitable.


The company, which led the consortium that produced Iraq's new banknotes, will also try to sell its loss-making US voting machine manufacturer and restructure its struggling Portuguese ATM servicing operation. It bought the businesses two years ago.

Some 150 of the job losses will hit the company's Portsmouth factory, which makes cash counting machines used in banks and which it wants to close by the end of 2006.

De La Rue, which employs 2,700 people in the UK, has also axed a number of positions at its head office, with the remaining job cuts spread across its international operations including Portugal and the US.

The job losses come despite the company yesterday saying that first-half pre-tax profits surged to £12m from just £200,000 as sales increased from £290m to £318m.

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[Eric J in MN]

1. A famous liberal should buy Sequoia.

Then Republicans would finally support laws requiring verified-voter paper ballots.

Perhaps Sequoia is too expensive for one person to buy, but a famous liberal should be part of a group which buys Sequoia.

As long as Republicans own every voting machine company, Republicans won't demand a verifiable system.

[bhikkhu]

2. Someone e-mail Soros...

But then again, if he owned the company they would never sell another machine in the US. Elections are a repug-only market.

[Eric J in MN]

3. Election officials will buy machines from any vendor

they think will give them a high-paying job down-the-road.

Money talks and corruption is rampant.

Regardless of whether the company is owned by a Republican or Democrat.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Does anyone here have a way to contact Soros? Or Theresa Heinz-Kerry?

Or anyone else who could lead a group to buy Sequoia?