A Vote For Anybody Is A Vote For Chavez

Not satisfied with letting him steal the Venezuelan election, we may be allowing Hugo to steal ours, too.

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.

From the NYT two days ago:

“The government should know who owns our voting machines; that is a national security concern,” said Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, who asked the Bush administration in May to review the Sequoia takeover.“There seems to have been an obvious effort to obscure the ownership of the company,” Ms. Maloney said of Smartmatic in a telephone interview yesterday.

Meanwhile, WorldNetDaily is reporting that a new Congressional report on homeland security says Chavez is providing identity cards to people from "Middle Eastern nations." And, for what it's worth, a Venezuelan defector says Chavez sent Osama bin Laden a cool million bucks after September 11.