this elections *chuckle*
Either way..Bush wins the elections. ;-)
"
California's Attorney General <http://caag.state.ca.us/> Bill Lockyer
said today that he is suing Diebold over fraudulent claims he believes
that company has made with regards to their electronic voting machines.
Kevin Shelley, Secretary of State in California, had said that Diebold
was overly aggressive and misleading when they sold their voting
machines to the state.
"Lockyer determined sufficient evidence existed to go forward with a
false claims lawsuit against Diebold," the statement
<http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=61
72995&src="" said. The state's top lawyer
earlier had dropped a criminal investigation of Diebold.
Diebold has had a long and difficult relationship with California. While
this news may seem bad, it's actually positive for the electronic voting
powerhouse, as they were previously under the microscope for criminal
activities. Nevertheless, this kind of negative press for Diebold in
specific and e-voting in general is becoming difficult to stomach this
close to a presidential election.
You may recall that Shelley banned
<http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040501-3721.html> the use of
Diebold's AcuVote-TSx voting machines for the November elections. At
that same time, Shelley asked the state to pursue criminal and civil
action against Diebold for installing
<http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%7E1865%7E2095811,00.htm
l> uncertified software on machines that were used in primary elections.
While those probes have been dropped, a fraudulent claims suit will at
least attempt to make some sense of how the state and Diebold rushed
headlong into a voting scenario with no paper trail, and untested
technology.
Earlier this week, a judge in Maryland threw out a
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/9571051.htm?1c> request
for a preliminary injunction against Diebold's machines, ruling that
they are in fact more secure than paper ballots. "
-Gel
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