Sequoia’s ownership raises new concerns

Bay Area News Group

June 19, 2006

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Lou Dobbs suggested recently that the federal government was derelict in not having investigated Sequoia and its acquisition last year by Smartmatic.

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After Chicago and Cook County were plagued with delays this spring in tallying a primary, city alderman Edward Burke suggested Sequoia’s voting machines were part of a conspiracy by Venezuela President Hugo Chavez to manipulate U.S. elections.

“We may have stumbled across what could be (an) international conspiracy to subvert the electoral process in the United States of America,” Burke told reporters. “Tell me a single, solitary reason there is to trace ownership through three shell corporations to the Curacao Islands and its roots to Venezuela, where they have already been involved with the dictator of Venezuela.”

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CNN’s Dobbs opened fire on electronic voting and Sequoia in particular as “an outright threat to our democracy.”

Next to a television logo reading “Democracy for Sale,” Dobbs said “we know what we’re dealing with, and it is a dysfunctional government that is trying to render our elections precisely the same.”

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