Voting Machines - AGAIN!

[DurocShark]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/31 ... cooperate/


This is really starting to piss me off.

[steve74baywin]

No doubt, I'm not surprised..
Polling shows Dems winning house and Senate,,,yet Karl Rove says Rep's will win both. Hum, just as assured as the past. They really haven't done anything to correct the problem of the voting machines being very easily rigged.

[Amskeptic]

Please be alert to your responsibilities. See who has called for polling place monitoring and support them. If you feel that the exit polls are too divergent from the tallied results, you absolutely must raise hell with your representatives and fire off letters to your local paper.
Note that Florida tried to sneak in a "law" that disallowed exit polling. Can you fucking believe it?
Really, exercise your obligations as a citizen if you sense you and your fellow citizens have been dis-enfranchised. I will see some of you on the Mall if there is a Big Question About The Results. I am not happy to see Rove's and Cheney's auras of certainty.
Colin

[tristessa]

How do you know the Administration is preparing for Democratic control of the House and Senate? The shredding trucks visiting Dick Cheney's house:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/3 ... with-dick/

[steve74baywin]

Note that Florida tried to sneak in a "law" that disallowed exit polling. Can you fucking believe it?
Colin

Once again, instead of many trying to figure out what on earth they are thinking,,,what an odd thing to do....Just refer to my auto signature,,,,
This must make the 1000 time it is the answer to something they have done or wanted to do that no one could figure out why.

[hambone]

Lookit this weirdness from the BBC:

Vote machine firm agrees to probe

President Chavez has no links to Smartmatic, the firm says
A US supplier of voting machines has agreed to a probe into its takeover, saying it will dispel "baseless" allegations about ties to Venezuela.
Smartmatic, which bought Seqouia Voting Systems in 2005, and Caracas strongly deny media suggestions that President Hugo Chavez has any role in the firm.

Seqouia's machines are being used in 17 states in the November mid-term polls.

The inquiry comes amid growing concerns about the reliability of electronic voting machines in general.

Touch-screen voting is in place in 33 states, with many experts warning that the machines are easy to tamper with.

'Confident'

Based in the state of Florida, the software firm Smartmatic is owned primarily by three Venezuelans. No foreign government or entity - including Venezuela - has ever held an ownership stake in Smartmatic

Antonio Mugica
Smartmatic CEO
It was hired by the Venezuelan government - which has strained relations with Washington - to provide election machines ahead of the recall referendum on Mr Chavez's rule in 2004.

A year later, the company bought Sequoia, a US company that has been providing voting machines since the 1980s.

In May 2006, Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat, asked the federal authorities to look into the takeover.

This weekend, US press reports suggested the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) had launched a formal investigation into the acquisition.

Sequoia and Smartmatic say they voluntarily submitted to a federal review.

"No foreign government or entity - including Venezuela - has ever held an ownership stake in Smartmatic, and we have voluntarily filed with CFIUS to put to rest the baseless but persistent rumours about our ownership," the firm's chief executive, Antonio Mugica, said in a statement.

He added: "We are confident it will clear the air so we can focus on what we do best."