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| | VotingMachineCompanies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The FEC lists only 19, the Texas-based National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) lists 16 that are 'industry certified' (which are outmoded and voluntary guidelines), while the IFES Buyers Guide lists about 64 companies worldwide that appear to be engaged in electronic voting. |
 | | These companies, Garden State Elections (Mt.Holly, NJ) and Elec-tec (Birmingham, AL - !http://www.birminghamchamber.com/news/2001/feb/newspg2_0101.html), were used to conceal transactions involving election services industry giant Sequoia Pacific, according to court documents, which fingered that company last week for orchestrating a 10-year long bribery scheme involving the Commissioner of Elections for Louisiana. |
 | | The president of that company, Ransom Shoup II, was convicted in 1979 of conspiracy and obstruction of justice related to an FBI inquiry into a lever machine-counted election in Philadelphia. |
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