Voting machine firms confirm U.S. Probe

[keepCAblue]

Oh sure--probe a voting machine company with ties to Chavez, but NO PROBES of Diebold, a company with ties to the Republicans and Fundies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_go_ot/voting_machines_probe

WASHINGTON - A U.S. manufacturer of touch-screen voting machines confirmed Sunday it was being investigated by the federal government for alleged ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez but flatly denied any connection.
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Sequoia Voting Systems Inc., based in Oakland, Calif., said the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, was conducting the formal inquiry into it as well as its parent software company, the Smartmatic Corp., at the firms' request after news articles suggested improper ties.

[bluestateguy]

1. In 2008 Democrats will control the vote counting in Ohio

If they win the governnorship and Secretary of State, as polls show they will, then Democrats will be able to re-porgram those machines for 2008.

[leftchick]

2. What About Diebold's Connection to bushco**?

never mind. :(

[NotGivingUp]

3. they are pushing this big time on all the networks. they know

the dems are do a clean sweep and this will be their reason for not accepting election results.

[SpiralHawk]

4. more republicon hypocricy

Can't wait for the repubs to start lecturing us all again about sexual deviants and honesty and other shit they know nothing about...

Frikking republicon hypocrites. They take the cake.

[StClone]

5. We Fest up.

Don't touch your control as we are now in charge of the signal Freepers, wingers and assorted winger huffers.

Chavez has sworn with the aid of us Underground to subvert the voting system for his amusement. We will be in charge from now until the end of time. You may as well stay home Nov. 7th...submit, resistance is futile. Those that comply will be assured some form of protection after the coup...err election. Thank you and we return you now to your viewing of the "Alice and Wonderland" Special.

[stillcool]

6. hmmmm.....

http://newsmine.org/archive/cabal-elite/election-fraud/electronic/voting-disputes/31-mistakes.txt

June 7, 2000
Honolulu Star Bulletin

FIRM ADMITS ERRORS IN COUNTING VOTES FOR HAWAII, VENEZUELA

ES&S has felt the most fallout from its problems in Venezuela, where that nation's highest court suspended the May 28 elections because of technical glitches in the cards used to tabulate votes.

Dozens of protesters have chanted "Gringos get out!" at ES&S technicians working in Venezuela's election offices. The U.S. Embassy in Caracas has protested the treatment by secret police of ES&S personnel, including alleged verbal and physical abuse and threats.

Venezuela sent an air force jet to Omaha to fetch computers and experts in a last-ditch effort to fix the problem before the delay was ordered.

Venezuela's president and the head of the nation's election board accused ES&S of trying to destabilize the country's electoral process. ES&S denied that, saying 11,200 changes by election officials in posting thousands of candidates for 6,200 offices were hindering the firm's work.

Published on Sunday, August 18, 2002 in the Boston Globe
US Tax Dollars Helped Finance Some Chavez Foes, Review Finds
by Mike Ceaser

CARACAS - Over the two years preceding the thwarted coup in April against President Hugo Chavez, a US-funded prodemocracy group financed a range of antigovernment programs, including some that have come under scrutiny for the way they spent their money.

An examination of grants of more than $1 million, given to organizations in Venezuela by the National Endowment for Democracy, has found that US tax money financed several Chavez opponents, including two organizations prominent in the protests that led up to the coup. The documents and interviews also report that money sent to one US-funded organization never reached its intended target and that another organization apparently falsified its Venezuelan accomplishments.

An endowment-funded trip to Washington by Chavez opponents may have accelerated the events leading to the April 11 uprising.

The revolt against Chavez fell apart after two days, allowing him to return to power. The United States soon came under a barrage of criticism for appearing to support the coup against a democratically elected president, apparently in contradiction to US policy to strengthen democracy in Latin America.

The endowment, founded in 1983 during the Cold War, is a private, nonprofit institution that receives almost all of its annual $33 million budget from the US Congress. Its purpose is to strengthen democracy worldwide, but critics have accused it of acting as an extension of US foreign policy.

[NVMojo]

7. THIS IS A HUGE FECKING JOKE!!! Repug NV SOS Dean Heller

bought brand new Sequoias with printeres for all of Nevada except Las Vegas area with HAVA money in 03/04. LV Sequoias don't have printers ...he was pictured on the Sequoia website after Bush won 04 talking about how great these machines are. Now the bastard is running for Congress while his pals at Sequoia control the vote all over Nevada. You tell me who zooming who! I can't wait to see the election results in Nevada in November!!!

[gully]

8. Isn't that amazing. The wheels of justice done fell off, unless you're a Republican.

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