They might as well all wear T-shirts emblazoned with the words "I am a bigoted hypocrite." The righties (NOT conservatives - read "thugs and goons") make absolutely no attempts to hide their manipulative biases.

This much is clear: not only should voting machines with foreign ownership be subject to CFIUS investigation, but every voting machine company in the US should be investigated similarly and any machines used in public elections should be subject to public scrutiny.

...There is a lesson here.

...Democrates need to initiate a hostile takeover of any/all of our domestic E-voting companies and then drive the lane straight to the hoop...baby!

...I figure we count the votes like the republicans have done, and retake the House, the Senate and regain the White House in '08. Name two or three SCOTUS picks too.

...Then we will call it even and get rid of the machines.

Americans making machines = Good.

Dictators = Bad

...pretty simple and what's with the dots?

Didn't George Soros say he'd spend his fortune to get Bush out of the White House. Can you imagine the uproar if he bought Diebold!!!!??? That would be cool.

You can't right all the wrongs done by the Repubs and their financial backers. There are dead citizens and soldiers and many other lesser incivilities and wasted or stolen monies.

We can only do what's right for now and try to do better in the future.

It would be poetic justice if George Soros bought DIEBOLD. Then you'd see them banned, which would be hypocrisy, because when the wingnuts want something banned, it will get banned. You'll hear the Republican Noise Machines - Rush Lame-boob, Sean "Let Freedom Ring" Hannity, Bill O'liely, and Fox News crying to ban them, and then they'll get banned.

Better yet, only Sequoia will get banned because of ties to Chavez, but not the GOP e-vote machines.

How come they're not calling this guy a tin-foil-hat conspirator??? Because he's a wrongwinger. There is sooooo much bias in the MSM towards the wrongwingers. It's crazy.

I've been saying fight fire with fire. I hope Chavez does control Sequoia, and he controls who gets into the U.S. congress. Then they will stop the e-vote machines. I've been saying this all along...it's all fine and dandy as long as GOP are stealing elections. But the same loopholes they are using, can be exploited by leaders of other countries. I've been saying this all along. I hope it happens. Homeland Security, if they were doing their job, would've banned these machines years ago, simply based on the fact that terrorists could control the vote in the United States. The GOP may have gotten the jump on hacking these machines, but they absolutely do not have the monopoly on hacking into them. Homeland Security isn't doing their job, just like 5% of our ports aren't secure. What exactly in hell IS homeland security for, and what exactly do they do??? I know GOP crony Ridge told us to duct tape our windows. Are we suupposed to take that duct tape down? I've had mine on for years, and haven't been given follow-up instructions, and we're suffocating here. I still have it up.

Computerized elections are being run or
considered in many countries, including some notorious for past riggings; thus the risks discussed here exist worldwide.

Dude, this is a smoke screen. In Nevada, a red state, in which Bush barely beat Kerry in 04, we have Sequoias at every poll now. We have 11 year old Sequoias without printers and no ability to verify the vote in Las Vegas at ever precinct. We have new Sequoias, by generous donation of HAVA, at all the other counties in the state and one at each precinct in Las Vegas with the non-printer Sequoias. Until this issue gets addressed, you need to ask yourself why Nevada's Repugs are not complaining?

This whining about Sequoia is a smoke screen on the part of these other Repugs. If they really are worried, they'd do something about Sequoias in Nevada. But no, they are silent about it along with Senator Harry Reid who won the last few elections on those paperless Sequoias in Las Vegas.

Just wait, they will soon ALL see some foreign owners with the voting machines and want them immediately banned.

They can't take their own medicine, hah!!!

The voting machines are going to hell, they never belonged anyway.

Big Dan #8

You said "5% of our ports aren't secure", and that surprised me.

Of the largest ports I have been to, on the east and west coasts, none of them are secure.

Not in the sense of containers. They can be compromised because only about 5% are inspected competently.

What are the real figures?

Looks like you can't argue with success. The GOP steals a few elections in the US and every other repressive dictator sees a good thing and wants in on the action. But here's an ironic twist for ya:

If only 3 steel framed buildings in history (out of tens of thousands) totally collapsed solely due to fire, (the 3 WTC buildings all on one day) then why don't demolition companies save themselves months of work and kilograms of explosive by just igniting some kerosene in those unwanted buildings? After all, kerosene burns at 1800 degrees F, (inside jet engine combustion chambers it does) and steel melts at 2800 degrees, so a kerosene fire should collapse a steel frame building? Right?

So why don't we change the way we demolish buildings then?

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