acroyear | it's spreading...

The alleged voting machine hassles in Florida, where people were selecting Democratic candidates, seeing it properly lit up there, then when submitting to the confirmation screen seeing their votes switched to the Republican candidates?

My officemate got an email from a family member that says it's happening in Texas as well.

Oh, but that's NOT getting the government's attention.

So what is?

The fact that one maker of the damned machines has been bought by a company with ties to Venezuela's "Anti-American" Hugo Chavez!

I'm with Ed on this one:
Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Government Suddenly Concerned About Voting Machines:

Now I agree with them, there should be no foreign ownership at all of a company that provides voting machines, particularly ones with any ties to a nut like Chavez. But isn't it ridiculous that this gets the attention of the Federal government when 3 years worth of reports of problems with these machines wasn't enough to wake anyone up? Absurd.

But on the other hand, if there is tampering going on and these machines aren't part of it but get replaced by machines that are...

Or is just because Chavez is a "leftie" that he'll tamper with the machines to make them auto-elect the "liberals"?