Bush's Nominee for Rumsfeld Replacement On Board Of Voting Machine Company

Ouch, from Blue State on Bush family loyalist, Robert Gates, further Bush strings:

Not that this really means anything. Just interesting. Black Box Voting notes on the connection between Bush's nominee to become the next Secretary of Defense and the largest voting company:

Gates was on the board of directors of VoteHere, a strange little company that was the biggest elections industry lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). VoteHere spent more money than ES&S, Diebold, and Sequoia combined to help ram HAVA through. And HAVA, of course, was a bill sponsored by by convicted Abramoff pal Bob Ney and K-street lobbyist buddy Steny Hoyer. HAVA put electronic voting on steroids.

Black Box Voting labels Steny Hoyer as a "K-street lobbyist buddy?" That's interesting. No wonder Pelosi wants Murtha as the Majority Leader instead of Hoyer; Hoyer might try to stall Pelosi's bill that would crack down on interactions between lobbyists and members of Congress.