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Venezuelan Interest In U.S. Voting Software
A number of readers wrote in about a U.S. federal investigation into the Venezulean ownership of Sequoia Voting Systems, which makes voting machines used in 17 states and the District of Columbia. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States wonders whether the anti-U.S. government of Hugo Chávez could be trying to influence the U.S. midterm elections. From the article: "Government officials familiar with the Smartmatic inquiry said they doubted that even if the Chávez government was some kind of secret partner in the company, it would try to influence elections in the United States. But some of them speculated that the purchase of Sequoia could help Smartmatic sell its products in Latin America and other developing countries, where safeguards against fraud are weaker."
From Wikipedia:
"Ohio State Senator Jeff Jacobson, Republican, asked Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell in July, 2003 to disqualify Diebold's bid to supply voting machines for the state, after security problems were discovered in its software..."
This by a Republican.
Check your facts before you post. There are numerous other instances where Diebold machines have been subject to scrutiny.
But I figure you just wanted to find some reason to support your own political agenda. Not surprising. Carry on.
TLF
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
And Bush already find an excuse, Chavez it's guilty!!
Come on! That's ridiculous!
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it must be true.
Please.
Chavez is the typical Latin American dictator incarnate. The consolidation of power under Chavez in the Executive branch of the Venezuelan government can't hold a candle to anything that has occurred in the U.S. in the past 6 years. If you hate Bush for much of what he's done, I imagine you'd hold a special dislike for Chavez.
Put down the Chomsky, and educate yourself. I hate citing Wikipedia as a source, but this particular article has so many primary sources listed at the bottom that it works.