Wednesday, November 01, 2006
 From former NBC News producer Daniel Hopsicker's MadCowProd.com Nov. 1 2006: "[...]The sale of Sequoia to an offshore company suspected of links to Hugo Chavez may be a key element in a fiendishly-shrewd Republican strategy to disclaim responsibility after the fact for stealing the 2006 vote.
Consider: who would suspect Republicans of being responsible if a company linked to Hugo Chavez is shown to have been "massaging" the vote?
No one, that's who.
A slight conflict of interest never hurt nobody.
But there is actually a Chavez whose involvement we should be worried about.
But his first name isn't Hugo. It's Manny. And he doesn't live in Caracas...
He lives in Austin Texas. ...
While the controversy swirling around Sequoia Voting Systems has so far only been about its takeover by Smartmatic, that may be about to change.
It may seem obvious, but election machines consist of both hardware, the machines themselves, and software, which tells the machine what to do.
The MadCowMorningNews has learned that Sequoia Voting Systems' electronic voting machines are being manufactured by a U.S. defense contractor which has contracts producing parts for the Boeing V-22 Osprey, as well as components for military Chinook, Hawkeye, Osprey and Comanche helicopters.
The company, Harvard Custom Manufacturing, in Salisbury MD, was until recently owned by Manny Chavez of Austin Texas.
"The electronics manufacturing company's (Harvard Custom Manufacturing) PCBA Systems Division, in Owego, produces electronic voting machines for Sequoia Pacific," reported the Elmira, New York Star-Gazette in a February 22, 2004 business feature headlined "Companies to watch."
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