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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-15-07 08:22 PM
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IN 2000, Sequoia Voting Owned by Jeb Bush Campaign Donor Jefferson Smurfit
Edited on Wed Aug-15-07 08:54 PM by McCamy Taylor
If you have seen the Dan Rather report, here


http://www.hd.net/drr227.html


you know that in 2000, Sequoia Voting which made the punch cards used in many precincts--especially minority precincts and poorer areas that could not afford new optical scan technology--forced its workers to drop quality control on its punch card ballots. More suspicious, it called for changing the specs on the ballots that would be send to a single county in Florida, one that ended up having ten thousand over votes and a big "hanging chad" problem. The press ridiculed the voters for not knowing how to vote. Sequoia workers showed Rather that these defective ballots were designed to fail.

We already know that Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris, W.'s Campaign Chair in Florida had conspired with Richard Armitage's company Choice Point-DataBase Technology to disenfranchise tens of thousands of Black voters by including their name on a "felons" list if their names resembled the names of felons in any one of a number of states. We know about LaPore suspicously designed butterfly ballot. We know about the sudden increase in Bush votes in West Florida.

What if Sequoia's management was involved in yet another arm of the Jeb Bush plot to deliver his state to his brother?

Turns out that in 2000, Sequoia was not owned by Venezuela. At that time, it was owned by an Irish Co. name of Jefferson Smurfit, and Jefferson Smurfit was a big campaign donor of Jeb Bush, and he had done big favors in the past for Jefferson Smurfit.

Here are a couple of links about the many owners of Sequoia, showing that Jefferson Smurfit owned Sequoia during selection 2000:

http://rte.ie/business//2002/0529/smurfit.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060619/ai_n16489392

And look whom Jeb Bush could count on for fund raising dollars:

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/110102/met_10851669.shtml

"Bush had raised at least $493,000 in Duval and its four surrounding counties as of Oct. 11, while McBride had collected at least $286,000, a Florida Times-Union analysis of state records shows.

"Bush has banked on contributions from prominent companies, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Florida Rock Industries, Gate Petroleum, Jefferson Smurfit and The St. Joe Co."

The employees of Sequoia think that their company was trying to promote E-voting. I think that Jefferson Smurfit was trying to help Jeb Bush's brother.
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McCamy Taylor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-15-07 08:31 PM
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1. Here more Jeb Bush-Jefferson Smurfit Links
This is stuff I posted about back in 2002, favors that Jeb was doing for Smurfit, disagreements that Smurfit had had with the Clinton administration EPA (reasons why the company might want a change to a GOP administration), which you can find in Salon

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@716.rmS0aQXu5tZ.10@.2cb829fe/573

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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-15-07 08:41 PM
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2. SMURFIT!!!!
:rofl:
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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-15-07 08:51 PM
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3. I just finished watching the video
Wow! That's all I can say. Who knew it went back to intentionally faulty ballots? Who thinks up this shit? Oh, wait, I know. It has Kkkarl written all over it.
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