Usually outsourcing is welcoming by the Bush adminitration. And electronic voting machines? Well, Republicans seem to think they're infallible. But now the New York Times reports:

The federal government is investigating the takeover last year of a leading American manufacturer of electronic voting systems by a small software company that has been linked to the leftist government of President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela.



This is the company that now owns the company that makes Sequoia machines, the main rival to Diebold. Incidentally, my county in New Jersey votes on Sequoia machines.

Apparently when the voting machines are made by Republican partisans, it's okay, but Chavez is another matter. Yet I can't help but think that if the one case is suspicious, so it the other.