Dan Rather Causes E-Voting Flap
HDNet's Dan Rather is making waves with his new report that Election Systems &Software, one of the nation's largest e-voting manufacturers, assembles voting machines in the Philippines -- in sweatshop-style factories.
Rather's hour-long report is available online. Rather digs deep and interviews a former ES&S worker from the Philippines who claims the company regularly provided voting jurisdictions in the U.S. with faulty equipment.
Kim Zetter at Wired News' Threat Level blog already has done some interesting follow-up work on the HDNet report. She wrote yesterday that ES&S failed to disclose its Manila facility to the Election Assistance Commission. Vendors are required to report to the EAC the locations of all their manufacturing and assembly facilities.
ES&S responded to Zetter's post this morning, and said it was an "unintentional oversight" that it did not report the Manila facility.
-- Michael Martinez
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