Voting Machines Made in China
Many new voting machines that will be used in our June primary are being made in China, according to this Financial Times story:
One problem is that many of the new voting machines that will be deployed are arriving from offshore manufacturing sites – mainly China – and are being rushed into service without adequate quality controls, says Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services, a voting consultancy firm.
All Iowa’s new machines come from either Diebold or ES & S. Last summer Diebold bragged that its machines were made in North Carolina:
Diebold Election Systems is the only election system company that manufactures its products in its own manufacturing facilities in the United States. In fact, jurisdictions in North Carolina have a special benefit when working with Diebold Election Systems because their voting systems are manufactured in their own backyard, Lexington, North Carolina.
Another company called Sequoia also claims to make its stuff stateside (in New Jersey).
These three companies sold the vast majority of new equipment being deployed this year, so it must be ES & S that is importing its products.
These Iowa counties will use ES & S machines.
If you live in one of these counties, you can look for the Made in China label when you vote.
China: Exporting its democracy.