U.S. Investigates Voting Machines’ Venezuela Ties
The inquiry is focusing on the Venezuelan owners of a software company that last year took over a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems.
For those technophiles out there, like me, who revel in their übergeekness, this one's for you. In reading the article, I was waiting for the Bush administration to be all up in arms over this, but the only government official quoted was a Democratic representative.
I don't know whether that's good news or bad news, in and of itself, but I do know that having worked around computers pretty much all my life, I know that their primary function is to be manipulated by humans. Combining this with the lack of transparency in the voting machine industry causes me some consternation when it comes to democracy. I, personally, voted on an optically-scanable absentee ballot for this November's general election, which I was able to verify, online, that it had been received.
It'd be interesting to see how things fare up in Toledo Lefty's neck of the woods. She's in Ohio.
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