Diebold Folds In DMCA E-Voting Lawsuit

sunbird writes "Diebold has filed a responsive pleading (PDF) in the lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation to challenge Diebold's practice of using the DMCA to suppress discussion of the critical flaws with electronic voting. Diebold states that it has "decided to withdraw its existing DMCA notifications and not to issue any further ones . . . ." Other recent developments include: this transcript of the court hearing on EFF's application for a preliminary injunction and Dennis Kucinich's linking to Diebold memos from his webpage at the U.S. House of Representatives. Stay tuned- the judge has scheduled a status conference for this Monday in the case."

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I say NAY

[alexborges]

Diebold has filed a responsive pleading...

Pleeeathe maathter, dont kill us in a PR war with the g33x0rx... Please...

EFF Sayz: NAY, i hereby condemn you to the removal of both your bits.

Re:Who'd have thought reason would prevail?

[Zeinfeld]

My two words would be PAPER TRAIL.

What use is a paper trail if the GOP can go to court again to prevent it being consulted if there is a dispute?

Re:Who'd have thought reason would prevail?

[Zeinfeld]

This claim is a pretty good example of somebody trying to find evidence to support his preconceived conclusions, and it is thoroughly debunked in the dissenting statement.

Ah so a dissenting statement by a group of Republicans proves that there was no electoral fraud!

Diebold say that their machines are completely reliable. So I guess that settles the matter, NO NEED TO WORRY DEARS.

That is it, sleep tight, the GOP tells us that they do not rig the polls, so we should just believe them. If anyone claims anything different THEY MUST BE A GODLESS COMMUNIST so anything they say can be ignored.

BTW the dissent disputes the findings by rejecting all the testimony and facts found as 'anecdotal' they provide no contradictory claims, nor do they dispute the evidence in detail, they dispute the claim that the returning officer and governor had responsibility, which is odd when you look who was responsible for compiling the list at the center of the claims and for distributing the wrong and illegal advice to the returning officers.

The other pillar of the dissent report is a regression analysis by a partisan statistician. As anyone in political science knows you can prove anything with regression analysis. Recently two reports on the subject of gun ownership were exposed as frauds, regression analysis does not show that gun ownership was rare in the US at the time the constitution was written, socre one for the NRA. Regression analysis does not show more guns less crime either score one for their opponents.

Regression analysis is a dangerous tool in political science because the number of factors influencing the data is large and the data available is small. Virtually any desired result can be obtained if you tweak your model.

The dissent is like one of those IHR rants that tries to claim that the Holocaust never happened. If you dismiss all the evidence you collect as anecdotal and play games with statistics you can claim black is white - which is exactly what the GOP did here.

Re:Who'd have thought reason would prevail?

[Zeinfeld]

Eventually some people who complained a lot got their vote counted and their right to vote restored.

But Harris and Bush succeeded in keeping over a hundred thousand voters off the rolls, most of whom were illegally and illegitimately denied their right to vote. The fact that the errors were corrected in a small number of the cases in the report changes nothing. Those two witnesses were called to show the lengtrhs that Harris and Bush went to deny their rights.

I took a look at Workindevs posting history. A lot of posts on electronic voting, all trying to convince us that there is no need to worry dears, those nice republicans are 1000% trustworthy and none of them would ever tell a lie, the WMD will eventually be found, the tax cuts are not almost exclusively for the rich and Nixon was not a crook.