On the Voting Machine Makers' Tab

[NVMojo]

remember this story??? Was there ever any future connection made to the voting machine companies and other election officials? I came across an older article out of Vegas that talked about how the city of Vegas' election official quit her job and appointed the current election official, Lomax, right after she talked the city to buy those old printer less Sequoias ten years ago. The same 2,000 old Sequoias used in this past election in spite of what the national media has said ...they had no printers and represented more than 50% of the machines used in Nevada's election.

Anyways that former Vegas election official went to work for Sequioa after she got her bosses to buy them. I think she's still connected to the purchases made by SOS Dean Heller and being pushed by him nationwide today....

If we don't start finding out the GOP connections to this, soon, the entire country will be run on GOP connected emachines with printers. Is that a paper trail you will be comfortable trusting??

Sept. 12, 2004 Editorial

As doubts have grown about the reliability of electronic voting, some of its loudest defenders have been state and local election officials. Many of those same officials have financial ties to voting machine companies. While they may sincerely think that electronic voting machines are so trustworthy that there is no need for a paper record of votes, their views have to be regarded with suspicion until their conflicts are addressed.

Computer scientists, who understand the technology better than anyone else, have been outspoken about the perils of electronic voting. Good government groups, like Common Cause, are increasingly mobilizing grass-roots opposition. And state governments in a growing number of states, including California and Ohio, have pushed through much-needed laws that require electronic voting machines to produce paper records.

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What election officials do not mention, however, are the close ties they have to the voting machine industry. A disturbing number end up working for voting machine companies. When Bill Jones left office as California's secretary of state in 2003, he quickly became a consultant to Sequoia Voting Systems. His assistant secretary of state took a full-time job there. Former secretaries of state from Florida and Georgia have signed on as lobbyists for Election Systems and Software and Diebold Election Systems. The list goes on.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/opinion/12sun2.html?ei=5070&en=a49fac50f697711f&ex=1105333200&oref=login&pagewanted=print&position=