regarding the voting machines being owned by a foreign company are a bad thing (surprise)...


but, the machines in question aren't owned by [link|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001224.html| Smartmatic Corp or Sequoia Voting Systems Inc.] hell, the machines in question aren't even owned by Diebold.

The voting device vendor is Election Systems & Software Inc., Sola said, adding that the system will work as planned. "We take many aggressive steps to ensure that the election is programmed and tabulated accurately," he said. "We balance the number of voters that enter a precinct to the number of ballots cast there. We also reconcile each touch-screen unit against audit data to ensure that the results are accurate." [link|http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9004682&intsrc=news_ts_head| Computer World]