PING – Hugo is at it again!
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Posted on 03/31/2006 5:25:39 AM PST by areafiftyone
You have got to be kidding me.
Forget Dubai — worry about Smartmatic instead.
The greater threat to our nation’s security comes not from Dubai and its pro-Western government, but from Venezuela, where software engineers with links to the leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chavez are programming electronic voting machines that will soon power U.S. elections.
Congress spent two weeks overreacting to news that Dubai Ports World would operate several American ports, including Miami’s, but a better target for their hysteria would be the acquisition by Smartmatic International of California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, whose machines serve millions of U.S. voters. That Smartmatic — which has been accused by Venezuela’s opposition of helping Chavez rig elections in his favor — now controls a major U.S. e-voting firm should give pause to anybody who thinks that replacing our antiquated butterfly ballots and hanging chads will restore Americans’ faith in our electoral process.
And the DUmmies whine about Diebold.
I'm taking off next week for 3 days of Nascar, can't wait!
Oh but the DUmmies LOVE Chavez and his dictatorship. They will love this. UGH!
Sometimes I feel the same way. Sometimes you just need some relaxation to do what makes you happy. Hope you have a great time there sounds like fun! :-)
Paper ballots with fill-in bubbles. You get machine readability, cheap voting booths that easily scale up or down for major or minor elections, and a paper trail for audits and recounts.
Touch screen voting, no matter who owns the companies, should be banned, not ebraced.
Exactly. And no excuses, if you don't fill it in correctly, it's not a valid selection. People who vote are adults and expected to be able to fill out a questionaire. Voting is fast be coming a joke because of the taint of fraud. I fead democratic principles may be coming to an end in world.
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