Disgraceful: Discredited E-Voting Vendor VP Appointed to U.S. EAC Advisory Panel

[BradBlog]

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Disgraceful: Discredited E-Voting Vendor VP Appointed to U.S. EAC Advisory Panel
Federal body tasked with overseeing U.S. certification of e-voting systems appoints scammer Edwin Smith, VP of e-voting companies Sequoia, Dominion, Hart-Intercivic...

Incredible. This would be the equivalent of appointing the sitting Vice President of Exxon Mobil to an EPA advisory committee, but Ed Smith has now been appointed to the disastrous U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)'s Technical Guidelines Development Committee as one of their new "Technical and Scientific Experts".

So Smith went from voting machine company Hart Intercivic to voting machine company Sequoia Voting Systems and is now at voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems, where he is a VP, selling e-voting systems to jurisdictions around the country who receive federal money dolled out by the EAC. And now he'll also sit on an advisory board at the EAC helping to advise which one of those companies sees their systems certified for use in U.S. elections by the EAC. Just amazing.

But that's not even half the story of why this is just incredible, and another huge black eye for the EAC (how many eyes do they have left to blacken at this point?) If you're not a long time reader of The BRAD BLOG reader, and don't recall who this Ed Smith is, read on. It's simply stultifying...

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[Ian David]

1. I guess that's one way to keep them from stealing elections from us.

Get them on our side, so WE can steal the elections?

At least until we "even the score" by stealing back the 8 years they stole from us.

Then we pull back the curtain and end the charade once and for all.

[BradBlog]

2. Think again...

I realize you were being sarcastic in your response, but if you think the EAC is "on our side" you haven't been paying very close attention.

For the record, the current EAC has 3 commissioners. Two Rs (one of them the chair) and one D. There is a vacant D spot that has yet to be filled by Obama.

Even when its 2 to 2, the EAC is a miserable failure, having approved every shitty e-voting system currently in use in the country. There is no private, secret vote counting system they don't like. No failed system they will bother to decertify even after it's failed time and time again. No e-voting company that they'll bother to oversee -- rather, they'll just have a seat at the table, just like Ed Smith.

[Ian David]

3. Short version: We're Screwn. n/t

[BradBlog]

4. On that, no quibble. :-( (nt)

[clear eye]

5. Instead of their stealing the elections, we just GIVE the elections to them. n/t

[yurbud]

6. who appointed him?