Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
The huge news for today is the announcement that Smartmatic has decided to sell Sequoia Voting Systems. They claim it is because of the ‘public debate’ over foreign ownership of a company that is involved in our elections. I suspect that Smartmatic didn’t like the idea that the Feds were looking into the sale and reports of bribery in Venezuela. There is certainly something suspicious about ownership of Sequoia. Smartmatic bought the company in 2005 for $16M from DeLaRue, a British company. That’s $16M for a company that had well over $200M in sales in the past couple years. Either DeLaRue has terrible business acumen, which they don’t, or there was something fishy about the deal right from the start. / In “E-voting Upgrades America’s Ballot Box” the author, a fellow at the biased, agenda-driven Pacific Research Institute, uses no facts in his article in favor of paperless voting. The problem is that some; not many but some; will read his drivel and actually believe what he says. …
Venezuela parent cites controversy in plan to sell voting equipment firm that supplies about a third of California’s counties LINK
The AG’s office impounds records amid claims rights of black voters were violated LINK
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Hey John,
I much appreciate your updates every day, especially during these hectic times.
Just wanted to say thanks, to you and to everyone here who’s been a part of taking back our democracy. It’s been a long year, but it ends with much hope, and reason to believe…
Raising my glass..
Since Brad hasn’t opened a “Season’s Greetings” thread yet, and since I don’t know if I’ll make it back here for awhile, once family starts arriving tomorrow, I’ll take this opportunity to wish everyone a wonderful, magical holiday season.. here’s to a saner, safer world in the new year.
Much love and light to all of you!
Kes
What Kes said.
Also the tinker-toy electronic voting machine industry has some strange bedfellows.
When is Hursti going to hack the machine so we can get our 1000 to 1 bet complete?
You are committing a serious felony misuse of semicolons and must stop immediately.
Signed,
The Punctuation Police