Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Sequoia’s parent company, Smartmatic got caught providing a Venezuelan customer with a gift of two days in a Boca Raton, FL resort. Smartmatic spokesman Mitch Stroller confirmed the company initially paid the bill but said Rodríguez later reimbursed all the money to Smartmatic. He declined to provide proof of the reimbursement or to say when the money was paid back. Uh huh! Activists speak out in Connecticut and act out in Pennsylvania. And the Wisconsin legislature unanimously sends a vvpat bill to the governor….
CT: New Voting Method Faulted. Group Urges State To Forgo Computers LINK
FL: Wexler: Wheel of Cronyism Spins ‘Round and ‘Round as Bush Picks New Secretary of State LINK
FL: Palm Beach County – ‘Paper trail’ ballot activists protest elections chief LINK
LA: Secretary Ater recommends delaying elections LINK
LA: Suit seeks to prevent postponement of New Orleans elections LINK
MO: Kansas City – KC voters to mark ballots two ways LINK
NC: EFF moves to block certification of e-voting systems LINK
NC: EFF files suit over e-voting in N.C. LINK
NC: Cleveland County – County to get new voting machines LINK
NC: Election boards scramble to hit deadlines (Fear and Propaganda) LINK
NY: Voting rules: Time for talk now at hand LINK
PA: Bucks County – A dispute at rollout of voting machines. A judge agreed that a group wanting to spread flyers on a different scanner system had no place at a demonstration. LINK
PA: Bucks County – Voting machines put to the test LINK
PA: State gives counties more time to buy voting machines LINK
PA: Perry County – Election races still unresolved LINK
PA: Cambria County – Voting to be even simpler. But time will tell whether the cost is worth it LINK
VA: Richmond – Recount for 68th won’t be separate (House delegate and attorney general races will both be recounted on the same day)(The recount will be just a recount of DRE ballots and not OS even though there appears to be 383 undervotes on OS counted ballots) LINK
VA: Court Rejects Democrat’s Argument In Contested AG Race LINK
WI: State Senate Sends Election Bill to the Governor Unanimously LINK
WY: Goshen County – A new way to vote for Goshen County residents LINK
INternational: Venezuelan Electoral chief accepted Boca stay. Sequoia’s parent company and a conflict of interest. LINK
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Sequoia’s parent company, Smartmatic got caught providing a Venezuelan customer with a gift of two days in a Boca Raton, FL resort. Smartmatic spokesman Mitch Stroller confirmed the company initially paid the bill but said Rodríguez later reimbursed all the money to Smartmatic. He declined to provide proof of the reimbursement or to say when the money was paid back. Uh huh! Activists speak out in Connecticut and act out in Pennsylvania. And the Wisconsin legislature unanimously sends a vvpat bill to the governor….
And this just out in the last couple of hours:
Update on Diebold Voting Machine “Hack” Testing
It’s amusing to see how they discovered the SoS proposed Protocols had come straight from Diebold–via the File: Properties info!
Was this vote fraud article ever posted on brad blog?
Stolen Election Facts
Whether the money was paid back or not is an interesting question.
What would be even more interesting is knowing what the hell the guy was doing in Boca Raton in the first place. It’s not exactly within commuting distance of Venezuela. People from Venezuela don’t go there on vacation very often, people taking vacation trips don’t have somebody else pay the bill, then reimburse him.
Catherine A #1
Thanks. That link is quite revealing. I am glad the BBV is holding the Secretary of State to the law. I do not know why officials sworn to uphold the law so openly violate it.
RLM #3
I was quick to wonder what Jeb and the Gang could have had to do with it.
Will somebody please ask Mitch Stroller of Smartmatic one simple, unambiguous question?
"What reason did Smartmatic have for putting up money for a Venezuelan to visit Boca Raton in the first place?"
Whether or not Smartmatic can prove they were reimbursed, or even if they were, is really not the point. Private companies don’t routinely advance money so that tourists from another continent can visit Boca Raton, Florida. But Smartmatic did. Why?
Even Inspector Clouseau could figure out that something’s wrong here. Maybe we could get him on the "phin" and ask him to investigate.
Anyone questioning the American election system could find themselves on the FBI terrorist list (link here).
No thanks neoCons for your fascist "Patriot Act".