Who owns the voting machines?

[Lauren Johnson]

I consider one of the dogs that did not bark on this issue was the lack of Democratic opposition to the voting machine scandal. Opposition did not exist from the top Democratic leadership. The second non-barking dog was Sen. Kerry not contesting the 2004 election despite serious voting irregularities in one county in Ohio -- a swing county. Kerry 'graciously' accepted defeat without a word of protest. The dog that was going to bark was Mike Connell, the Republican operative who set up the intermediate server system. I did bark once as his plane was going to splatter on the ground just before he was to testify as to his role: "Fuck."

The Democratic leadership had been told, IMO, to keep their yappers shut.