Reply #45: Woh -- just saw the entire David Allen report. Should be up in minutes

[BevHarris]

on http://www.blackboxvoting.com

Highlights:
1) Defense industry players Lockheed and Northrop Grumman, and Accenture, and EDS, were the driving forces behind the HAVA bill and it was done for reasons of pure profit.

2) They hope this doesn't get into the press and don't want to put what they are really doing in writing because they don't want the public to know the industry is in trouble and hiring a lobbyist

3) Voting machine companies who don't pay up by next Friday may find themselves out in the cold (" I don't want to say this but a knife in the back")

4) They want to "re-engineer" certification and get more influence over it.

5) They are worried about antitrust problems and want the ITAA to do a little legal research for them

Now, the tone of the meeting is much more carefully worded, but make no mistake: These guys are selling democracy down the river.

After I get DemActivist's story up I'll create a web page for each at the http://www.blackboxvoting.org site as well.

Give me another hour...

Bev