More Outrage from the Right About a Voting Machine Company Tied to Hugo Ch

[kster]

More subpoenas seem to be on the way for voting machine company officials, this time in Illinois where it looks like the city aldermen in Chicago, according to the Sun-Times are none-too-happy to be forced to continue payments to Sequoia Voting Systems who ran such a disastrous primary on new electronic machines across the state just a few weeks ago.

A similar battle has been underway in Texas where officials have been trying to avoid payment to ES&S for the primary disaster down there on March 7th, just two weeks before the Illinois debacle.

In the meantime, the hypocrisy of the Right Wing continues vis a vis Electronic Voting Machines and their newly discovered concerns, as we reported late last week, about a Venezuelan company, possibly tied to Hugo Chavez, controlling the Sequoia company, and thus having an unknown and troubling amount of concern over American elections.

As in the wingnut piece we pointed to last week, Richard Brand in the Miami Herald (via right-leaning RealClearPolitics.com) is horrified that a company tied to Chavez may be having undue influence over American elections.


http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002644.htm

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Well why? They wouldn't cheat or anything like that would they?

sarcasm off

This is great. Finally a break for us mostly lefties who have been saying for the last 30 years that elections shouldn't be privatized and that computers are easily manipulated.

If it takes the boogy man of Chavez to bring it home to the Repos, then I like Chavez even more now than ever.

[raysr]

2. Good! Maybe that'll

wake up the RW'ers to voting machine fraud and together we could put an end to them. However, they weren't worried as long as everything was going their way.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Venezuela uses Sequoia but with OPEN SOURCE CODE, unlike here,

where only private rightwing Bushite corporation personnel get to see the programming by which they are 'tabulating' all our votes. Venezuela also has a paper ballot backup, unlike about half the voting systems here (the other half have varying degrees of piss-pour auditing, even if they have a paper trail).

Venezuela also has the most highly monitored elections in the world--hundreds of international monitors (OAS, EU election groups, the Carter Center) crawling all over their elections.

If WE had those things--open source code, a good paper trail and international election monitoring--we wouldn't have Bush as president.

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There sure is some odd politics involved in this affair. Repub Bill Jones--Calif Sec of State just before Kevin Shelley--got the election theft system started in Calif (with purchases of Sequoia systems, among others), and now works for Sequoia, as does his chief aide Alfie Charles. Very corrupt "revolving door" employment. But I figure the fascists still don't like Jones, because they let Barbara Boxer beat his pants off for Senate in '04--she took the state by a 20% margin--without so much as lifting a hack on his behalf (unless he lost by even more than is apparent). Schwarz is their boy--and Jones would have been a rival to Schwarz, had he done well against Boxer. (It appears that they did hack some % off of Kerry's margin in Calif--he won the state by a 10% margin, compared to Boxer's 20% blowout, and the difference between Kerry and Boxer is all to be found in Republican precincts--very strange.)

Anyway, just sayin. Sequoia is being peddled by former Republican office-holders. But then, all three of the major election theft corporations are run by Republicans--and Sequoia's rivals, Diebold and ES&S, by outright Bush/Cheney "Pioneers" and rightwing nutters.

Maybe that's what's going on here. Sequoia is associated with Jones' somewhat less rabid form of Republicanism (he's somewhat more of an old-fashioned Calif-type Republican), compared to crazy Bushites ($8 trillion deficit, torture, disastrous illegal war, CIA/military purges, domestic spying, Medieval social policy, etc., etc.).

You know, it's funny--Chavez is saying all the things that moderate Republicans are saying these days--that Bush is nuts ("Mr. Danger" and all that). Maybe that's why freepers hate him so much.

Hard to figure this Freeper Flap.

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and SEQUOIA election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!