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.

 

NAtional: E-voting Upgrades America’s Ballot Box

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=20346

 

NAtional: Cook County's voting machine supplier for sale

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/nearnorthwest/chi-0612220233dec22,1,730079.story?coll=chi-newslocalnearnorthwest-hed

 

NAtional: Sale ends machine flap

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/16295058.htm

 

NAtional: Parent firm plans to sell Sequoia Voting Systems

Venezuela parent cites controversy in plan to sell voting equipment firm that supplies about a third of California's counties

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/16297940.htm

 

NAtional: Venezuelan-owned voting machine company to sell U.S. subsidiary

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/16299969.htm

 

NAtional: Smartmatic Announces It Will Sell Sequoia Voting Systems, Withdraw from CFIUS Review

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2140&Itemid=51

 

NAtional: Sale Of Voting Machine Firm With Venezuelan Links Will Avoid U.S. Probe

http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196701695

 

NAtional: Cfius probe blamed for sale of voting-machine company

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=FT&Date=20061222&ID=6300088

 

FL: Florida Voters To Next Congress: This Time, Let Us Finish Tallying the Vote

http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2138&Itemid=113

 

FL: FL-13 - Audit heads into its final phase

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061222/NEWS/612220432

 

FL: Sarasota County - Voting machine chips check out

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16295281.htm

 

FL: Sarasota County - Advocates are left off panel to study voting

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061222/NEWS/612220526

 

FL: Sarasota County - Touch-screen questions may lead lawmakers to look at voting anew

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/breaking_news/16300599.htm

 

GA: Voter paper trail not an easy path

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2006/12/21/1222metballot.html

 

GA: Opinion - Georgia's electronic vote secure

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/opinion/16284733.htm

 

GA: Panel: Paper trail no guarantee of accurate vote count

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/16298103.htm

 

GA: Another $75 Million to Diebold?

http://www.peachpulpit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=156&Itemid=30

 

GA: Bibb County Vote Experiment Shows Little Promise

http://www.wmgt.com/node/604

 

PA: Westmoreland County - County elections bureau eyes hiring guru

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribunereview/news/westmoreland/s_485362.html

 

TX: Waller County - State probing Waller County election

The AG's office impounds records amid claims rights of black voters were violated

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4420140.html

 

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