Ok, let's drag an election-rigging red herring across the trail

and blame any potential problems on...??? are you ready for this...??? sit down...

HUGO CHAVEZ

In the debate about the reliability of electronic voting technology, the South Florida parent company of one of the nation's leading suppliers of touch-screen voting machines is drawing special scrutiny from the U.S. government.

Federal officials are investigating whether Smartmatic, owner of Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, is secretly controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, according to two people familiar with the probe.

In July, a Treasury Department spokeswoman disclosed that a Treasury-led panel had contacted Smartmatic, and a company representative said his firm was ''in discussions'' with the panel. At the time, those discussions were informal. The government has now upgraded to a formal investigation, the two sources said.

Sequoia's electronic voting machines operate in 17 states.

that's right, folks... hugo chávez is really our enemy... next, they'll be investigating secret additives to venezuelan petroleum that cause motors in u.s. cars to have problems...

a clue for federal officials concerned with election-rigging...

DIEBOLD

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