FOIA records give insider info about vendors and elections officials in NH & OH.

[Stevepol]

BBV has gotten some FOIA materials that show the cozy relationship between the elections officials and the vendors of the voting machine companies.




I was especially interested in the NH stuff because the difference between the exit polls and the results in NH were so anomalous in 04 and yet the recount apparently didn't show any problems. It seems to me with the closeness of the relationships indicated some sort of gamesmanship is being played here and it's not legal and aboveboard. Here's a brief bit about NH:


NEW HAMPSHIRE

The chair of the finance committee of Londonderry, John Silvestro, is the president of LHS Associates, the company that sells and programs the Diebold voting machines in New England. Records obtained by Black Box Voting show that the town finance committee chaired by Silvestro just recommended doubling their investment in the machines and services provided by the company Silvestro runs. In addition, Silvestro doesn't appear to be giving his own town very good prices on the new equipment.

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The stuff about OH and Triad is also very interesting.

Link: http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/46451.html

[kster]

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