More Troubles for Diebold

[Starlight]

This disturbs me to no end:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/04/opinion/04mon3.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fEditorials

"Diebold, the much-criticized electronic voting machine company, got another black eye last week. A federal court in California ruled that it had violated federal law when it falsely charged two students with violating its copyrights by posting critical information about its voting machines on the Internet. The case raises more questions about Diebold's honesty and its commitment to transparency.

The story began early last year when someone - it is unclear who - posted internal Diebold e-mail messages on the Internet that discussed flaws in the company's electronic voting machines. Two students from Swarthmore College then posted those messages on various Web sites. Diebold sent out a flurry of cease-and-desist letters claiming that the postings violated its copyrights. The students sued, charging that Diebold knowingly misrepresented its rights under copyright law.

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California agreed. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to send a cease-and-desist letter while knowing that the claim of copyright infringement is false. The court held that Diebold knew that its e-mail messages "discussing possible technical problems" with its voting machines were not copyrighted, but went ahead anyway.

This is the second recent setback to Diebold's already troubled reputation. Last month, California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, joined a false-claims suit against Diebold charging it with lying to the state about the security of its voting systems. Now, a federal court has ruled that Diebold made knowing misrepresentations to get damaging information about its machines' security off the Internet."

There's only a couple more sentences to the editorial, but it goes over the 4 paragraph limit so I had to cut them.

[ogradda]

1. i dont understand

how the hell it can be legal to use those things. why aren't they being pulled?

[AndyTiedye]

2. Diebold Still Controls Enough of the Vote to Steal it for Boooosh

[Blaze Diem]

3. Chipping away at Diebold's credibility...

...bit by bit Diebold is being outed for just how incompetant it really is.

Having State and now Federal rulings against it, secures far more leverage, should the Kerry election fraud attorneys have to make their case. Bush's rovian forces will be playing into their hands should GW somehow win this election.

Beginning with Diebold's statement that they are doing all they can to assure Bush a win in November, to court findings already on the books, makes their steps a bit more unsteady.

Seems like a case is being made to include them in the many indictments waiting in the wings for the Bush cabal.

Many dopes-to-rope in GW's fascist herd..