Lou Dobbs discovers Smartmatic

VCRISIS ^ | 06/08/2006 | Aleksander Boyd

[galilei]

London 08.06.06 | US main stream media has finally realised the importance of exposing the shoddy connections of Smartmatic, the e-voting machine vendor that has served so well the electoral purposes of the Venezuelan militaristic caudillo, in their attempt at messing about with USA's democracy. Many reports about Smartmatic have been written by me and others and published in this site over the years. As a matter of fact, following the lead of Venezuelan journalist Orlando Ochoa Teran, I broke the news nearly a year ago about the suspect network of shell companies behind Smartmatic. Dobbs' and others' interest stems from the fiasco that a Sequoia-run election held in Chicago on March 21 this year, resulted in officials of Cook County denouncing the inadequate performance of e-voting machines purchased to Sequoia, which is a fully owned subsidiary of Smartmatic. But there are, in my view, issues that neither Dobbs nor Representative Maloney, Congresswoman who filed a request with Treasury Secretary John Snow to enquire whether or not the acquisition of Sequoia by Smartmatic had been vetted by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States (CFIUS), have addressed.

Firstly, much has been said by Sequoia, Smartmatic and Venezuelan officials in regards to the re-purchase of the 28% stake that the Chavez administration had in Smartmatic. However, to this day, no credible, or otherwise, evidence has surfaced to support that claim. According to investigations of Ochoa Teran, Venezuela's Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel and Venezuelan Ambassador to the USA Bernardo Alvarez Herrera are intimately related, either through long time friendship or consanguinity relationship, to the directors of Smartmatic. Furthermore according to registry documents, that went missing after the Miami Herald blew the whistle, the names associated to the company are Alfredo Anzola, Antonio Mugica and families Gabaldon-Anzola and Herrera-Oropeza.

[galilei]

How can we be sure that Venezuela hasn't infiltrated other electronic voting companies such as Diebold, ES&S and Hart Intercivic? If Chavez gets Castro into the electronic vote fixing game, he has billions he's been withholding from the starving Cuban people. He could buy one of these companies outright! With the MSM's clear refusal to expose how delicate electronic voting machines are, how would we ever know?

[martin_fierro]

Welcome to FR.

[mysterio]

I watched that piece. I don't really trust the electronic machines to begin with. No paper trail. Paper ballots are the safest.

[galilei]

thanks.

[gusopol3]

article's interesting but a little complex; can you summarize in three sentences, please?

[Choose Ye This Day]

Lou Dobbs is just $10 away from proving Smartmatic fraud.

Is Bev Harris once again posting over here? Under a new name, of course.

[traditional1]

Yeah, we know: Kerry was cheated in Ohio....Bush really lost....and you STILL can't "MoveOn"