Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In yesterday’s DVN I mentioned that Smartmatic had been looking for a buyer for Sequoia for “over a year.” In fact Smartmatic announced it was looking for a buyer for Sequoia on 22 Dec. 2006 so it has been 8 months. Both Sequoia and ES&S have released statements in an attempt to make lemonade from the lemons served up by Dan Rather’s Report. …
NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems, in Full Damage Control Mode, Contacts Us About Error, Reveals Several of Their Own in the Bargain LINK
NAtional: ES&S – Statement Regarding HDNet Program LINK
NAtional: Sequoia Voting Systems Publishes Quality Control Documentation For 2000 Palm Beach Punch Card Ballots LINK
NAtional: ‘Diebold Election Systems, Inc.’ Is No More! (At Least in Name) LINK
NAtional: Why nobody wants to buy Diebold Election Systems LINK
NAtional: Rather looks at 2000 voting snafus LINK
CA: Opinion – Secretary of state votes for voters LINK
CA: Voting machine hackers – UCSB team breaks into counting device LINK
CA: San Bernardino Co. considers return to paper ballots LINK
CO: Montrose County – Montrose nixes voting machines, may go to all-paper ballot process LINK
MO: Elections and Self-Promotion: The American Way LINK
MS: Hancock County – Requested ballot review in Senate primary begins LINK
NY: Election board approves broader use of paper ballots LINK
NY: State keeps paper ballots open to all LINK
PA: Northampton County – Lever voting machines may make a return LINK
Philippines: Firm that gave US flawed counting machines wants to automate RP polls LINK
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In yesterday’s DVN I mentioned that Smartmatic had been looking for a buyer for Sequoia for “over a year.” In fact Smartmatic announced it was looking for a buyer for Sequoia on 22 Dec. 2006 so it has been 8 months. Both Sequoia and ES&S have released statements in an attempt to make lemonade from the lemons served up by Dan Rather’s Report. …
CA: San Bernardino Co. considers return to paper ballots LINK
“Riverside County Registrar Barbara Dunmore said earlier this week she would recommend purchasing a $7 million paper ballot and optical scanning system from Sequoia without seeking a competitive proposal.”
Talk about guaranteed to fail.
And after another failed election has “proven” yet again that paper ballots have mysteriously stopped working in the modern era? Why then Sequoia will expect to be paid yet again for even more EVM’s… and Dunmore will not disapppoint them as her future employment as a highly-paid EVM shill will be on the line.
I know that Bowen has put into place some safeguards regarding the sourcing of the paper ballots, but even opscans require a willing tech crew to make them work halfway right… and if the shills and county officials can convince themselves that Bowen is only a temporary voice of sanity…
BEWARE!!! Rove has NOT rode off into the sunset “to be with his family”!!! I would bet he is up to his usual puke, working on hijacking 2008 for Thompson. I apologize if it is alittle off topic, but the election system must be working or we will have another 8 years of bush/thompson. Thompson is very pro bush!