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VoteHere Whistleblower Suit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the follow-the-money dept.

astar writes "VoteHere is a DRM electronic voting machine vendor. Dan Spillane is sueing them for wrongfull termination in a whistleblowers suit."

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  1. RTFA! by unborracho · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not even the poster can RTFA... they make DRE machines (Digital Recording Electronic).. not DRM. When I first looked at the article post, I thought: "oh great, now the MPAA/RIAA has sway in voting machines too?"

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  2. Re:Use schools as a model? by big+tex · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have that.
    I went to college in Mass., and they have a glorified scantron machine.

    You get you paper ballot and a #2 pencil, and go into the booth. When you come out, they scan it. If it registers any errors, it spits back out, and you get to re-do. If it is correct, it sucks the ballot into the box and records the data electronically.

    Assuming there is some good way of making all of these ballot boxes talk to a central computer, it sounds like the best answer to me.

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  3. Suit settled by aqui · · Score: 5, Informative

    This suit has to my knowledge already been settled.

    Looks like VoteHere doesn't want more bad PR.
    A quote from an article at the seatle times:

    "We have resolved the matter to our mutual satisfaction and have agreed that we are in pursuit of many of the same goals for election reform," Spillane's attorney, Stan Lippmann, said.

    Fired engineer reaches deal with election-software company:
    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/20 01795328_voting19m.html

    30 seconds on Google and Voila... ;)

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  4. Re:Whistleblower Laws? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Info here.

    Basically, if:
    -your employer works for the US government in some capacity
    and
    -your employer acts to defraud the government somehow
    and
    -you report the fraud to the government
    and
    -the company fires you for tattling on them

    then

    -you can sue them for wrongful termination, based on the fact that you were legally obligated to report their illegal activities to the government.

    In some cases, if the government manages to recover the money that was stolen from them, they can give you a percentage of it.