ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!!!

Unbelievable!!! New Cook County election machines, that performed so badly this election, (See Chicago Machines), are produced by the same company that flipped the recall election results to keep marxist-Castro-loving Cesar Chavez in power!!!
Story by Richard Brand, via RCP:

The greater threat to our nation's security comes not from Dubai and its pro-Western government, but from Venezuela, where software engineers with links to the leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chávez are programming electronic voting machines that will soon power U.S. elections.

Congress spent two weeks overreacting to news that Dubai Ports World would operate several American ports, including Miami's, but a better target for their hysteria would be the acquisition by Smartmatic International of California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, whose machines serve millions of U.S. voters. That Smartmatic -- which has been accused by Venezuela's opposition of helping Chávez rig elections in his favor -- now controls a major U.S. e-voting firm should give pause to anybody who thinks that replacing our antiquated butterfly ballots and hanging chads will restore Americans' faith in our electoral process.

More here from John McIntyre, RCP blog.

And Chavez is ambitious. He has been tossing his petro-dollars around in Chicago as well as Latin America (See Banana Republics), decrying the US "empire", calling President Bush a terrorist and playing kissy face with Cindy Sheehan. Recently he has been cozying up to Iran, the terror state, and whipping up anti-American sentiment by claiming we are going to invade Venezuela. (Reuters, from their Oddly Enough, apparently Reuters finds thuggish dictators amusing):

With an audience of ministers, army officers and local officials chuckling, Chavez remarked on how he would target U.S. soldiers with arrows covered with curare, an Amazon Indian poison made from plants.

"I am going to practice with a bow and arrow. If we have to put a few arrows into any invading gringo, then you'll be done in 30 seconds, my dear gringo," Chavez said pointing to his neck during his regular Sunday television broadcast.

In the best tradition of humorless dictator humor, this is confirmation that Chavez is a nasty guy.

Cancel those voting machine contracts now!