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Obama makes first move to undermine 2010 elections
Post and Email ^ | Dec. 21, 2009 | John Charlton

Posted on 12/21/2009 11:47:41 AM PST by opentalk

Earlier this month, Obama made his first official move to corrupt and undermine the 2010 elections. The move consisted in the little noticed appointment of a technical adviser to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC) of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC).

The importance of the appointment was explained at The Brad Blog last Monday.

The Official Press Release of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission read as follows:

U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 1225 New York Ave. NW – Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20005

For Immediate Release December 11, 2009

Contact: Jeannie Layson Sarah Litton (202) 566-3100

New Technical and Scientific Experts Appointed to EAC’s Technical Guidelines Development Committee

WASHINGTON- The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) today announced the appointment of four new technical and scientific experts to its Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), which is charged under the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) with assisting EAC in developing federal voluntary voting system guidelines that are used to test and certify voting systems.

The following new members were appointed jointly by EAC and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST):

Thereupon it lists a series of advisers appointed, among whom is:

Edwin B. Smith, III, vice president of compliance and certification at Dominion Voting Systems. Before joining Dominion Voting Systems, Mr. Smith was vice president of manufacturing, compliance, quality and certification at Sequoia Voting Systems. He also served as the operations manager at Hart InterCivic and the senior director of operations at K*TEC Electronics. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelor of Science in engineering technology from Texas A&M.

Both Sequoia Voting Systems and Dominion Voting Systems have been at the center of infamous voting irregularities in different elections across the country, according to Brad Friedman’s article on the subject, which appeared in the Gouverneur Times at the end of November.

At his Blog, Brad Friedman explains who Edwin B. Smith is:

Smith is the guy who, after years of paying a crackpot contractor named Mike Gibbons to do this and that for Sequoia with loads of federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) tax-payer cash, assigned him to do an “independent” analysis of Sequoia’s touch-screen machines after they failed in NJ’s 2008 Super Tuesday election. That was just after Smith had sent a letter threatening two Princeton computer scientists with legal action “to stop any infringement of our intellectual properties, including any non-compliant analysis,” if they performed the actually independent analysis of the machines as they were tasked by NJ election officials to do. (Additional outrage/irony shortly thereafter uncovered by The BRAD BLOG: Sequoia didn’t even own the Intellectual Property rights to the machines in question. Rather, the IP rights were, and are still to our knowledge, owned by Smartmatic, a Venezuelan firm tied to Hugo Chavez. Sequoia lied to both federal investigators and state election officials about that relationship.)

After The BRAD BLOG exposed who Smith’s friend Mike Gibbons actually was — a Sequoia insider, as well as a drunk and a philanderer with an obnoxious Facebook page seeking a “well endowed blond nymphomaniac,” only to change the page after we’d outed him to feature a photo of him and George Bush Sr. and a professed love of Jesus Christ instead — Gibbons was fired. (He would be found dead a few months later, the actual cause of which we’ve never been able to ascertain.)

Smith was severely reprimanded at Sequoia for the embarrassing incident, and has now been rewarded by moving on to Dominion, which is in partnership with his old friends at Sequoia to supply the new, failed e-voting systems recently deployed, disastrously, for the first time in last November’s election — the one where the results of the NY-23 Special Election for U.S. House will now forever be in question. The Sequoia/Dominion contract to supply faulty, secret vote counting machines to NY-23 is worth some $20 million federal tax-payer dollars.

The Post & Email notes that the other appointees to the Technical Committee have qualified liberal connections: Iowa State Elections Commission and the University of Columbia. Neither are experts in computer software, or the forensic investigation of computer hacking.

A copy of the official Commission’s Press Release can be read at Brad’s blog. The Commission describes itself and its importance in overseeing the counting of votes in elections across the country, thus:

The EAC is an independent commission created by the Help America Vote Act. The EAC serves as a national clearinghouse and resource of information regarding election administration. It is charged with administering payments to states and developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, and accrediting voting system test laboratories and certifying voting equipment. It is also charged with developing and maintaining a national mail voter registration form. The three EAC commissioners are Gineen Beach, chair; Gracia Hillman, vice chair; and Donetta Davidson. There is one vacancy on the commission.

The appointment makes the commission much more able to “assist” the 2010 Elections, but not in the sense you and I mean by the word “assist.”

Finally, you can read the exchange between the president of Sequoia Voting Systems and Brad Friedman in the comments section of the article he wrote at the Gouverneur Times


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2010; democrats; dominionvoting; edwinbsmith; election; ny23; obama; sequoiavoting; uselection; votingmachine
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1 posted on 12/21/2009 11:47:45 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

The fix is in.


2 posted on 12/21/2009 11:49:01 AM PST by sarasota
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To: opentalk
sub title:

GETS FORMER SEQUOIA CO. VP NAMED AS ADVISER TO U.S. ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION

3 posted on 12/21/2009 11:49:10 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

These people are up to stealing an election before the votes are even electronically counted. The only protests you’re gonna hear are those where Democrats don’t (read are to effing stupid to add the numbers up to fake a goddam win).


4 posted on 12/21/2009 11:50:44 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Jet Jaguar; hoosiermama

Ping.


5 posted on 12/21/2009 11:52:05 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: opentalk

First thing the new House must do is Articles of Impeachment.
Should be a required campaign promise for all Republicans.


6 posted on 12/21/2009 11:52:11 AM PST by flash2368
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To: opentalk

Steely Dan:

“See the glory
Of the Royal Scam”


7 posted on 12/21/2009 11:54:09 AM PST by Mengerian
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To: opentalk

Shocker!

Communists are cheating at the ballot box.

But, wow! won’t it be fun to vote in November.

Elections were wonderful before the communists took hold of our government.

Acorn and the rest will make sure your vote doesn’t count.

Like I’ve been saying, we cannot fight these people this way. It assumes that both sides want to play fair.

In case you haven’t noticed, those on the left want to rip your face off as a freedom loving American.

You will be awakened to this fact this year, one way, or another.


8 posted on 12/21/2009 11:54:13 AM PST by Boucheau
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To: opentalk

WTF?

President For Life Barack Hussein Obama in the United People’s Socialist Islamic Republic of Amerika will next proclaim:

Pack your bags you lowly White Christian Gun Toting Teabagging Birthers and Right Wing Fox-Watching, Rush-listening HATERS. You’re going to a FEMA camp.


9 posted on 12/21/2009 11:55:18 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: sarasota

What would happen if ~huge~ numbers of Americans discovered that *none* of them voted for the Dems who “won”?


10 posted on 12/21/2009 11:56:21 AM PST by Salamander (I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.....)
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To: opentalk
Patrick Henry:

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!

The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?

What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

March 23, 1775

11 posted on 12/21/2009 11:57:21 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Bon mots

“You’re going to a FEMA camp.”

No.
I’m not.

They can take that any way they like.


12 posted on 12/21/2009 11:58:53 AM PST by Salamander (I'm sure I need some rest but sleepin' don't come very easy in a straight white vest.....)
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To: opentalk
Our communists leader King Obama has screwed America. Only a total forcible rebellion will save this Country.
13 posted on 12/21/2009 11:59:53 AM PST by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: NewJerseyJoe

P4L


14 posted on 12/21/2009 12:00:41 PM PST by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Bon mots
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15 posted on 12/21/2009 12:03:07 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
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To: Bon mots

Pack your bags you lowly White Christian Gun Toting Teabagging Birthers and Right Wing Fox-Watching, Rush-listening HATERS. You’re going to a FEMA camp.

wanna bet?...


16 posted on 12/21/2009 12:06:03 PM PST by ronnied
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To: Salamander
You’re going to a FEMA camp.

What price are you willing to pay to make that happen? I promise you, it won't come cheap!
17 posted on 12/21/2009 12:06:49 PM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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To: Salamander

Yep, that is why the media ignores the tea party marches and continually shouts the lefts mantra.

Can’t let the masses figure out that the huge majority hates these powermongers.


18 posted on 12/21/2009 12:09:07 PM PST by Voter62vb
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To: sarasota

They couldn’t steal New Jersey last month.


19 posted on 12/21/2009 12:09:22 PM PST by rushmom (l)
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To: Mengerian
Indeed - we are so on the wrong end of the Royal Scam....

GREAT album featuring a whole lotta Larry Carlton arrangements and playing.

20 posted on 12/21/2009 12:11:32 PM PST by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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