In other words, the 'Rats can continue to bus in all those voters from local cemeteries, bribe the homeless with cigarettes and what-not, and they can do it all electronically!
This is all in preparation to go back to the old style vote stealing that pleases the dems no end.
Drudge exposed the truth about voting during the mid-term elections of '98--how quickly we forget???
That shows incredible incompetence and negligence, if not fraud, on the part of the elections officials who should have been overseeing these contracts.
It's good that this company has been decertified, but the real question that needs to be asked is how they became certified in the first place without the proper procedures in place.
Despite the attention problems with voting machines have gotten, the number of problems has been relatively small, but still unacceptable.
The reports of the problems have generally tried to suggest that the relatively small number of problems represent are representative of the electronic voting systems.
What these problems have really shown is that the elections officials the people elect in these areas are incompetent.
It should surprise no one that there are people out there who will sell crappy elections systems if someone will buy them.
What should surprise people or at least appall them is that our elections officials will buy those systems with little to no testing, and in some cases use them even after they have shown to be faulty and unreliable.
While local precincts may not have the expertise or the money to properly evaluate these systems, the States should be able to provide the funds and the skills required to properly oversee the testing of these systems. I wouldn't expect the officials to do the testing themselves, but they should definitely be able to find competent people who can, and hire people with the competence to make sure they are tested properly.
Unless the precincts are simply making decisions on their own without consulting the State government, which in many places they appear to have the authority to do, voters need to come down hard on the Secretary of State in those states and demand that proper oversight be used in the validation and approval of these systems.
The American taxpayers have been defrauded and robbed, and the perpetrators are racketeers, by definition.
If there is collusion between the makers of the bad systems and those who are improperly certifying the systems, then I agree it is racketeering and should be prosecuted as such.
However, it's more likely that the problem can be traced to government officials going with the lowest bidder or a bidder with the proper contacts, while not providing the proper oversight to ensure that taxpayers are getting what they are paying for.
It is those government officials responsibility to ensure that the taxpayers are getting what they are paying for, and the one that haven't been living up to that responsibility need to very quickly fix that or get thrown out.
If should also go without saying that companies that aren't providing quality services and products should no longer be used and if they misrepresented those products or services they should be facing civil and possibly criminal penalties.
What's so hard about all this? We did it for 180 years. It's not rocket science.