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Diebold Threatens to Pull Out of North Carolina

Posted by Zonk on from the truth-fight dept.

foobaric writes "A North Carolina judge ruled that Diebold may not be protected from criminal prosecution if it fails to disclose the code behind its voting machines as required by law. In response, Diebold has threatened to pull out of North Carolina." From the article: "The dispute centers on the state's requirement that suppliers place in escrow 'all software that is relevant to functionality, setup, configuration, and operation of the voting system,' as well as a list of programmers responsible for creating the software. That's not possible for Diebold's machines, which use Microsoft Windows, Hanna said. The company does not have the right to provide Microsoft's code, he said, adding it would be impossible to provide the names of every programmer who worked on Windows."

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  1. FireFox 1.5 Released! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What happened to that FireFox 1.5 released post?!?!? :-)

    1. Re:FireFox 1.5 Released! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      seriously, who cares about this crap!!! give us the firefox post!!!!

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and M$ and Sony still Suck!

  3. in other news by ndtechnologies · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Again, at the risk of being modded offtopic...

    Firefox 1.5 is available for download from the Mozilla FTP site.

    ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.5

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    I have nothing clever to put here...
  4. GEORGE BUSH IS THE ANTICHRIST by Voice+of+the+Voicele · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16952 5&cid=14134999 you have to tell everyone you know!!! this is not a drill!!!!!!!!!! BUSH IS THE ANTICHRIST this is no joke.