Encephalomyelitis Venezuelan relations with the United States
With USA, November Congress elections, electronic voting machines are still in the news. HBO issued new documentary entitled “Hacking Democracy” on Thursday of last week, the issue of “electronic voting system machines is it safe?” Democracy Now! Home voting machine investigative journalist and founder of the group of consumer protection of choice, black BoxVoting.org, Bev Harris, last Tuesday, where she found that “not only [votes] Mechanics mistakes, they are also Tamper - friendly and that companies are Cover-Up Mode. “Last week, it was also reported that the Dutch government has decided to take 10% of their machines for lack of security in advance of presidential elections on 22 November .But without doubt the biggest news of last week on electronic voting machines to the USA and Venezuela, the electorate, the U.S. government last Smartmatic investigation and rumours that manufacturers of machinery to vote may have links to the Venezuelan government. Smartmatic is deprived of the Venezuelan parent company of Sequoia system of electors, one of the oldest and most top vote appliance manufacturer in the USA. Smartmatic itself, insofar as the machinery for the year 2004, the Venezuelan referendum, and is responsible for supplying machines for the vote of Venezuelan President elections for the 3rd December.
The investigation takes place in the U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), it follows allegations that the Venezuelan government held once a software company partly in possession of two owners of Smartmatic . Rumors requirements still further, trying to prove that the Smartmatic machines in the 2004 referendum against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been manipulated, which the president of the “illegitimate” and win with 59% of votes.
It is understandable, a growing consensus of citizens on the right and left, the USA and Venezuela, believe that the system of electronic voting machines are a bad idea. With “mistakes” and “Tamper-friendly” machines, a laundry list of dysfunction
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