The Corporate Vision of Sequoia's new owner Smartmatic

[Land Shark]

Smartmatic:

The CEO of Smartmatic is Venezuelan, SM has 70 employees in Venezuela and 7 in Boca Raton, FL and California (combined).

It's a company with $2.5 million in annual sales reported recently, that got the lion's share of the $91 million Venezuelan contract.
One of the partners in the Venezuelan bid is a company partly owned by the Venezuelan government. Just a coincidence says Venezuela.

For the above, see, e.g.,
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/8471517.htm>

The www.smartmatic.com website talks about voting technology throughout, and specifically under the section entitled "vision", states as follows:

"When we look at technological and industry trends, we envision a world that will be completely interconnected. This means every single device will be remotely controlled in order to perform tasks and cooperate with other devices."

Which is a nice corporate synergy there because Sequoia's touch screens are already daisy chained together with their power cords so it will be quite easy to "add" those networking capabilities.

[eomer]

1. How low must we sink before something is done about BBV? n/t

[Land Shark]

4. Low enough so that the groans of pain can be heard

throughout the country without a media megaphone.

[sasquatch]

2. Perhaps Chavez is using this guy to turn red states to blue states

I think that's when you'll see something done about BBV:)

[glitch]

8. Now that would be worth seeing - suddenly the right livid about bbv. nt

[kster]

9. Has there been any cases

where a repug lost to another repug because of e-voting? If we had one or so that would be a easier to sell to the sheeple.

[Wilms]

3. kick n/t

[Amaryllis]

5. kick

[newscott]

6. So Clinton gets raked over the coals for peddling influence

with China and now our votes will be counted in Venezuela. Does this make anyone feel slightly uncomfortable?

[Melissa G]

7. If they outsourced to Europe, I'm sure Bush would be ousted.n/t