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Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL

An anonymous reader writes "Diebold Inc. and its subsidiary, Premier Election Solutions, is using Ghostscript in its electronic election systems even though Diebold and PES 'have not been granted a license to modify, copy, or distribute any of Artifex's copyrighted works,' Artifex claims in court papers filed late last month in US District Court for Northern California. The gs-devel list first brought up the possible GPL violation a year ago."

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  1. I liked this video. by generic · · Score: -1, Offtopic
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    Microsoft aggravates my tourettes syndrome.
  2. Re:Overlook the matter by Gothmolly · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aren't they already configured that way, or was it just the 2:1 media bias towards him?

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    I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
  3. The U.S. government has become very corrupt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    True: "I've always felt that the poor security and poor implementation on the voting machines is intentional to allow for the possibility of fraud..."

    Articles and a free movie about the the unprecedented organized vote fraud:

    Rolling Stone magazine has an article about vote stealing in 2008: Block the Vote: Will the GOP's campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president? That article is also available as a PDF file.

    The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has another article: Voter Suppression Incidents 2008. A PDF is available.

    See the free online movie Stealing America: Vote By Vote. The evidence presented in the movie shows that both of the previous presidential elections were stolen. The evidence is that the corrupters plan to steal the 2008 election, too. We will know in a few days.

    Neither of the articles mentioned discusses how votes are stolen using computer fraud. Slashdot has run 17 stories in 2007 and 2008 about computer vote fraud and electronic voting, listed here in reverse order by date. Note that the evidence in the Slashdot stories also is that the last two presidential elections were stolen:

    West Virginia Voters Say Machines Are Switching Votes.
    Black Box Voting 2008 Election Protection Toolkit
    How To Spot E-Vote Tampering?
    Hard Evidence of Voting Machine Addition Errors
    New Jersey E-Voting Problems Worse Than Originally Suspected
    The Cost of Electronic Voting
    Sequoia Vote Machine Can't Do Simple Arithmetic?
    Ohio Investigating Possible Vote Machine Tampering Last Year
    Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries
    Ohio's Alternative to Diebold Machines May Be Equally Bad
    All Fifty States May Face Voting Machine Lawsuit
    Judge Voids Un-Auditable California Election
    Re-Vote Likely After E-Vote Data Mishandling
    A Flawed US Election Reform Bill
    House To Vote On Paper Trail and OSS Voting Bill
    U.S. To Certify Labs For Testing E-Voting Machines
    U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines