Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos

bllfrnch writes "Mary Hodder, over at The Berkeley School of Journalism's bIPlog, reports that electronic voting bigwig Diebold has begun sending cease-and-desist letters to universities whose students are linking to hijacked internal company memos that elucidate the company's level of respect for citizens' right to vote. Particularly shocking is the line: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.""

Comments

Well, it happens to be true.

[Aldric]

No matter whether it's a republican or democrat as president, they will be looking out for their corporate buddies.

Re:Oh really?

[Zachary Kessin]

Saddam did good things for Iraq? Lets look at his record...

Killed 20,000 kurds with poision gas, murdered thousands of others. Killed or expelled the Jews of Iraq, two wars with hundreds of thousands dead? Let us not forget Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who threatened his neighbors on a regular basis.

I for one am not at all sad to see Saddam gone for ever. I sleep a lot safer knowing Saddam's scuds are no longer pointed at me, and his money is no longer going to fund suiside bombers.

Re:That's absolutely right

[Loki]

Sorry. Reality has changed theory. Alot of people now define communism as "A form of government that may have started as a half-based attempt to bring on a utopian collectivist society - as defined by Karl Marx - but is in reality a murderous totalitarian state." Given that those totalitarian states called themselves communist, the new definition stuck. There has never been true communism, which like any form of anarchy will not work for large groups due to human nature. Instead there were megadeaths brought on by the likes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. ...not that a pseudo-socialist corporate republic like the USA is a good thing.

Re:Stupid Quote

[NearlyHeadless]

• the US helped Saddam to power
• the US sold Saddam WMDs and other assorted weapons (using loaned US taxpayer's money to pay for them)

These two things are false. The U.S. had nothing to do with Saddam getting to power. The U.S. did not even have diplomatic relations with Iraq from 1967 to 1984. Saddam seized power in 1979.

The United States never sold Iraq any weapons of mass destruction. It hardly sold Iraq any weapons at all (just some lightly armored helicopters). The U.S. accounted for less than 1% of Iraq's weapons. Iraq was a Soviet client state and bought arms mainly from the Soviet Union and France. The money for Iraq's weapons came from Iraq itself, other Arab oil states, the USSR and France.

The U.S. did give Iraq some agricultural loans in the mid-1980s when it was trying to improve relations with Iraq.

These are just outrageous lies that people have come to believe through repetition. Believe it or not, the United States is not responsible for every bad regime in the world.

Re:Enough. All the above...

[Ender Ryan]

You rednecks

Very mature.