“These are the makers of devices used by the public while electing their representatives. They should know who's running these companies and who their majority stakeholders are... Government agencies hooking up with private companies that treat ownership details as trade secrets isn't a good idea -- not when the government has certain transparency obligations...
Voters aren't given a choice in voting machine providers. They're stuck with whatever their government gives them. But when the government actually decides to perform a little vetting, the makes of the machines trusted to deliver accurate vote counts want to hide behind trade secret exceptions to prevent the public -- and their elected officials -- from knowing exactly who they're dealing with when they head into the voting booth.
Given the abhorrent track record of so many voting machine companies, it's no surprise they're extremely reluctant to share any details with the voting public. But that doesn't make them right.”
Funny, Tom Wolf (Governor of Pennsylvania) is mandating all election machines updated to these new Voting Boxes. My district said our machine are fine (30 years old and still more reliable) but Wolf said any district that doesn't use new machines will be invalidated. Forcing our district to buy and use these corrupt machines.
Already had problems with the machines miscounting votes.
They already run Europe!
“These are the makers of devices used by the public while electing their representatives. They should know who's running these companies and who their majority stakeholders are... Government agencies hooking up with private companies that treat ownership details as trade secrets isn't a good idea -- not when the government has certain transparency obligations...
Voters aren't given a choice in voting machine providers. They're stuck with whatever their government gives them. But when the government actually decides to perform a little vetting, the makes of the machines trusted to deliver accurate vote counts want to hide behind trade secret exceptions to prevent the public -- and their elected officials -- from knowing exactly who they're dealing with when they head into the voting booth.
Given the abhorrent track record of so many voting machine companies, it's no surprise they're extremely reluctant to share any details with the voting public. But that doesn't make them right.”
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190706/17082642527/voting-machine-makers-claim-names-entities-that-own-them-are-trade-secrets.shtml
Funny, Tom Wolf (Governor of Pennsylvania) is mandating all election machines updated to these new Voting Boxes. My district said our machine are fine (30 years old and still more reliable) but Wolf said any district that doesn't use new machines will be invalidated. Forcing our district to buy and use these corrupt machines.
Already had problems with the machines miscounting votes.
https://www.abc27.com/news/local/harrisburg/dauphin-county-will-keep-old-voting-machines-commissioners-say/
Here in Philly burbs and we are switching machines too.
Insanity if we let it continue...