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<\/a>But for a start then today, I’ll let Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org<\/a> do some of the early heavy lifting. She has some concerns, which caught our eye, about Rumsfeld’s announced replacement, Robert Gates, as DefSec. Described by Wonkette<\/a> as “an Iran-Contra crook and ex-CIA chief,” Harris’s concerns about Gates revolve around his involvement as Director of a mysterious E-Voting group. She writes in a noteworthy article posted at SCOOP today…<\/a><\/p>\nGates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist\/buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.<\/p>\n
You can find copies of the VoteHere lobbying forms here: I can’t get them to save to pdf, perhaps you can. Enter search terms in both “registrant” and “client” fields and put in terms “Rhoads” “Livingston” and “Votehere” (one at a time.). Then look at the gravy train while it was in the process of derailing American democracy.<\/p><\/div>\n
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