Diebold Goes 0 For 3 In Massachusetts Case

beetle496 writes "ComputerWorld reports that last week a judge denied Diebold's request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts. This is a follow-up to the earlier discussion here after Diebold contended that the state had erred in selecting the machines of its rival, citing accessibility provisions of the HAVA law. Quoting: 'Diebold's request for an injunction to block the execution of the contract with ES&S was rejected... The judge also denied Diebold's request to have an accelerated discovery process and to keep the state's legal team from viewing internal Diebold documents... "The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said.' The actual accessibility concerns have been discussed over at the TEITAC listserv, including a few telling observations from experts familiar with accessible voting and at least one state insider."

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Re:Diebold should just

[Anonymous Coward]

lie down and die.

They don't have any ATMs in New Zealand any more ... security problems.

Re:Score..

[UbuntuDupe]

The reason, I think, is that in other countries -- those ones with all the revolutions -- political corruption is *the* way to get rich. In developed, transparent countries, your livelihood doesn't depend much on which party is in power in the first place. You can still get a job, you can still start a business, you can still buy farmland or a house, etc. While Congress still doles out a HUGE number of special favors that lobbyists fight over, that "corrupt" spending doesn't take such a large *fraction* of the total economy.

Just my theory... okay, okay, hypothesis.

Massachusetts

[erroneus]

"The Clue State"

Or maybe just call it "Massa-clue-setts"

First OpenDocument. Now this. Love it.

Re:Score..

[lawpoop]

I think you're right. In America, our system still works well enough that people's daily lives aren't yet too much impacted by fraud and cronyism.

There's a quote I encountered somewhere in my anthropology studies that says "People don't protest when their bellies are full." Everyone loves to say that nobody in America cares, but when the shit starts hitting the fan, you will witness a sea change in the US, on the scale of the 1930s. The kindling is building up, sooner or later some event will spark the whole thing aflame.

Re:Score..

[WindBourne]

Well, kidding aside, I tend to think that you are correct. All in all, the choices have been 2 lamers; a dem and a rep.. Worse, most of these are crooks.

1. Reagan was a traitor, liar and a crook. Worse, his policies have damaged America like no other had, until W..
2. Poppa bush (a president that I liked) may also been part of the reagan fraud. I would like to believe that he was not in the Iran Hostage deal (where the republicans cut deals with the Iranians to hold the hostage until after the election, which is treason in any country including USA).
3. Clinton was probably not that bad, but the truth is, that he lied under oath. But to his credit and poppa bush, they at least had worked towards balancing the budget. Had W. simply stayed the path, we would be lowering taxes right now, AND with zero deficit (but a large reagan debt).
4. And W. well, the man IS the worse pres of all time. The amount of corruption makes Nixon and Reagan's ppl look like 2 bit players. The lies and deciet is amazing. The fact that he is trying to now hide nearly all of his doings from congress is absolutely staggering. His deficit makes Reagan truly look ameutuerish.

And now, we are looking at Gullliani (a real winner there; multiple divorces; claims to be liberal then tries to turn conservative), McCain (Another Gulianni), Romney (who is backed by the Bush brothers that should scare EVERYBODY). And the dems are not much better.

I do have to say, that I am intrigued by Obama, but the problem is that he does not have thay much experience. All in all, I will probably vote Libertarian as I have for so long (save the last 2 elections in which I missed voting in 2000, and voted dem in the last one for the first time ever).

Re:Diebold should just

[ScrewMaster]

... security problems.

Well, that's what happens when you wrap a bunch of armor plate around a Windows box and call it an "Automated Teller Machine". Oddly enough, that's also what happens when you take a Windows box and call it an "Electronic Voting Machine."

Protest - vote autocratic!

[Mal-2]

If nobody on the ballot seems acceptable, write in someone who is. That could be yourself, if you are eligible to hold that office. Or arrange with a small group of like-minded people to use the same write-in protest candidate.

There's your CowboyNeal vote. Too bad it won't win, unlike on /.

Mal-2

Backfire

[Chris Burke]

And like SCO, maybe this suit is set to backfire on them?

They tried to get an injunction to stop the contract going through so as to damage their opponent, but they also tried to keep the feds from being able to view their internal documents in the process. Well they didn't get their injunction, and now the feds are going to have access to those documents during discovery. Do these documents contain things they really don't want anyone to know? It's happened before, but are they afraid that even more documented examples of willfull malfeasance be aired in court?

I know, wishful thinking, and it's not like the ones the state went with are any better. But I'm a hopeful guy! The SCO case might even end this decade!