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Edited on Sat May-06-06 04:34 AM by Stevepol
From www.blackboxvoting.org
This week, the state of Pennsylvania sequestered all Diebold
touch-screens to implement an emergency security measure. Several more
states are expected to follow Pennsylvania.
The state of Utah has known that a critical security risk exists in
its Diebold TSx touch-screens, but chose to punish the courageous
public official responsible for identifying the defect instead of
taking any efforts to learn what the problem is and correct it.
Below is an excerpt from a security alert faxed to the Utah Lt.
Governor, state elections director, Emery County attorney and Emery
County commissioners on March 24.
SHOOT THE MESSENGER
Utah officials ignored the warning entirely, and instead flew Diebold
attorneys to Emery County on the governor's airplane, where the
Diebold lawyers were allowed to sit into a private executive session.
In this session, a decision appears to have been made to block Emery
County Elections director Bruce Funk from executing his duties.
In Utah, the law requires that any employment decision be publicly
noticed (it was not) and the county attorney is the designated counsel
for county elections officials (County Attorney David Blackwell chose
to side with Diebold against Bruce Funk). According to a tape
recording of the public portion of the meeting, Bruce Funk repeatedly
requested an attorney, but this was denied to him.
snip ...
Black Box Voting has assisted Funk in securing qualified legal counsel
and is underwriting the public policy legal actions to defend Funk
against Diebold's actions -- ironically, with Diebold's own money, won
in a Diebold false claims suit in California. A $76,000 fee was paid
to Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris, and was subsequently
contributed as a restricted donation for public interest litigation.
The Diebold money is now helping support the fight by whistleblower
Stephen Heller, who is facing retaliatory action by Diebold's
attorneys. Diebold false claim funds are also underwriting legal
actions to help Bruce Funk fight Diebold's retaliation.
In Funk's case, the lack of public notice and failure to put his
employment matter on the agenda likely outweighs the 1929 law, as does
the county's refusal to provide him with counsel, failure to allow him
to sit in on the private meeting with Diebold lawyers concerning his
employment, and insistence that he take responsibility for elections
held on machines he knew to be insecure.
To date, Emery County has refused to provide Funk with either a
transcript or a tape or their behind-closed-doors meeting with Diebold
attorneys.
snip ...
Diebold has also been participating in orchestrated smear campaigns
against Black Box Voting and its founder, Bev Harris, using fake
Internet "screen names," identity theft (posing as board members of
Black Box Voting to post defamation), organizing fake news Web sites
smearing election integrity advocates in general and Black Box
Voting/Bev Harris specifically. Some Diebold employees tag-team with
the Diebold smear squad to point elections officials toward the
cyberlibel. The Diebold Internet smear squad also includes an
individual from North Carolina.
snip ... More at the site
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