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U.S. government finally taking a close at electronic voting technology
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 23:31:35 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html?ei=5094 <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/washington/29ballot.html?ei=5094&en=fd899 d68b6854b10&hp=&ex=1162094400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print> &en=fd899d68b6854b10&hp=&ex=1162094400&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print October 29, 2006 U.S. Investigates Voting Machines Venezuela Ties By TIM GOLDEN The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist Venezuelan government of President <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hugo_chavez/in dex.html?inline=nyt-per> Hugo Chávez. The inquiry is focusing on the Venezuelan owners of the software company, the Smartmatic Corporation, and is trying to determine whether the government in Caracas has any control or influence over the firms operations, government officials and others familiar with the investigation said. The inquiry on the eve of the midterm elections is being conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/un itedstates/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> United States, or Cfius, the same panel of 12 government agencies that reviewed the abortive attempt by a company in Dubai to take over operations at six American ports earlier this year. The committees formal inquiry into Smartmatic and its subsidiary, Sequoia Voting Systems of Oakland, Calif., was first reported Saturday in The Miami Herald. Officials of both Smartmatic and the Venezuelan government strongly denied yesterday that President Chávezs administration, which has been bitterly at odds with Washington, has any role in Smartmatic. The government of <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ve nezuela/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Venezuela doesnt have anything to do with the company aside from contracting it for our electoral process, the Venezuelan ambassador in Washington, Bernardo Alvarez, said last night. But Smartmatic was a little-known firm with no experience in voting technology before it was chosen by the Venezuelan authorities to replace the countrys elections machinery ahead of a contentious referendum that confirmed Mr. Chávez as president in August 2004. ...
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