Lambert @ corrente:

The voting machine manufacturers are Republicans…

The voting machine testers are Republicans…

The testing process is entirely secret….

The voting machine software is entirely secret…

Swing states Ohio (home of Diebold) and Florida (fraud in 2000, already) are using electronic voting machines that are manufactured, tested, and run by Republican firms…
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The conflicts of interest are dizzying.

The Rocky Mountain News story:

At Greenwood Village-based CIBER, employees and some spouses have donated more than $72,000 to GOP candidates and groups during the 2001-2002 and 2003-2004 election cycles, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group.

Democratic donations linked to the firm were $3,000 during that time.

Such donations from CIBER are “perfectly legitimate,” said Rebecca Mercuri, a computer security expert with Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study.

“What should raise eyebrows is that our U.S. government and state governments allow this to happen,” she said. “There’s been nothing done to dissuade the perception that there’s partisan control over the voting process.”

CIBER isn’t the only company in the voting machine business at which people are actively involved in politics. Walden O’Dell, chief executive of Ohio-based Diebold Inc., the parent of electronic voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems, has helped raise funds for President Bush. O’Dell attracted attention last year after sending a letter to Ohio Republicans to raise money for the GOP, noting his commitment “to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”