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Legal Troubles Continue To Mount For Diebold
dstates writes "The State of Maryland has filed a $8.5M claim against Premier Election Systems (previously known as Diebold), joining Ohio in seeking damages from the company. The claim alleges that election officials were forced to spend millions of dollars to address multiple security flaws in the machines. Previously, Diebold paid millions to settle a California lawsuit over security issues in their machines. The dispute comes as Maryland and Virginia prepare to scrap the touch screen electronic voting systems they bought after the 2000 presidential election. California, Florida, New Mexico, and Iowa have already switched to optical scanners, and voters in Pennsylvania are suing to prevent the use of paperless electronic voting systems in their state. Meanwhile, Artifex Software is suing Diebold for violations of the GPL covering the Ghostscript software technology used in the proprietary voting machines."
Man, it must really be xmas! LOL!
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
Palm trees and 8
He didn't say Christmas. He said Xmas. Totally different holiday.
Yes, that's the point exactly. People expect the opportunity to select their corrupt politician of choice. Anything that interferes and might allow the wrong corrupt politician to get into power is unacceptable.
"Oh no... he found the
They'll probably get a bailout for their efforts too.
They should hold a referendum so people can vote for getting rid of these flawed electronic voting machi.. oh wait!
You mean XF86-mas, or X.org-mas?
We could celebrate with a new newsgroup, alt.die.bold.die
Hopefully, when it comes time to nail them to the wall, they'll use Wilson's Nails.
I thought it was OS Xmas.
It's the illusion of democracy that keeps me going at night.
I believe it was said best here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF5Kdm4Eu6w
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
"Diebold" always struck me as such a typical bond-villain type of name; "Premier Election Systems" sounds like it's trying to cover up that the company is run by the mafia... maybe they should buy voting machines from ACME? Sure they'd blow up every now and then, and the roadrunner would get away, but in many ways such obvious failure would be better than subtle and undetected vote-rigging :-)
I mod down anyone who says "I will be modded down for this", regardless of the rest of their comment
Happy Festivus!
I dunno about all you barbarians, but I had a Saturnalia party, and trust me, wearing togas and drinking wine is way better than the boredom going on today..