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- Diebold Lobbyist Donates $10,000 to Blackwell Campaign
  Posted by Billbar from Truth Out
  Mitch Given, who is a registered lobbyist for Diebold Election Systems, one of the vendors of voting machines for election boards in Ohio gave Republican Ohio secretary of state Kenneth Blackwell the maximum $10,000 allowed an individual donor. Blackwell spokesman Carlo LoParo said the May 15 contribution came well after Diebold signed a contract with the state to provide the machines in February 2004 after bids were submitted by the vendors.
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- Will Your Vote Count in 2006?
  Posted by Damianmann from Truth Out
  How bad are the problems? Experts are calling them the most serious voting-machine flaws ever documented. Basically the trouble stems from the ease with which the machine\\'s software can be altered. It requires only a few minutes of pre-election access to a Diebold machine to open the machine and insert a PC card that, if it contained malicious code, could reprogram the machine to give control to the violator. The machine could go dead on Election Day or throw votes to the wrong candidate. Worse, it\\'s even possible for such ballot-tampering software to trick authorized technicians into thinking that everything is working fine, an illusion you couldn\\'t pull off with pre-electronic systems. \\"If Diebold had set out to build a system as insecure as they possibly could, this would be it,\\" says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer-science professor and elections-security expert.
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- Will Major Media Stop Hiding Electronic Election Fraud?
  Posted by Billbar from Truth Out
  That the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post finally ran coverage of problems with electronic voting machines this week is itself big news. It says the scandals surrounding computer fraud and financial illegalities at Diebold and other electronic voting machine companies have become simply too big and blatant for even the bought, docile mainstream media (MSM) to ignore.
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- Scoop: Shocking Diebold Conflict Of Interest Revelations
  Posted by Damianmann
  Ohio is reeling with a mixture of outrage and hilarity as Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell has revealed that he has owned stock in the Diebold voting machine company, to which Blackwell tried to award unbid contracts worth millions while allowing its operators to steal Ohio elections. A top Republican election official also says a Diebold operative told him he made a $50,000 donation to Blackwell's "political interests."
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- New vote machines ignite feud in Emery
  Posted by Billbar from Salt Lake Tribune
  Emery County, Utah clerk, Bruce Funk raised a stink when he invited in representatives of Black Box Voting, a Washington state-based nonprofit voter rights group, to inspect Diebold voting machines earlier this month. "In no way could I feel comfortable with these machines," Funk said Monday. "I don't want to be part of something that put into question the results that come out of Emery County."
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- Election Whistle-Blower Stymied by Vendors
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  Ion Sancho the maverick elections supervisor in Leon County, Fla., last year helped show that electronic voting machines from Diebold. Now, however, Sancho may be paying an unexpected price for his whistle-blowing: None of the state-approved companies here will sell him the voting machines the county needs.
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- Diebold inc. sued by Californians
  Posted by Damianmann from Reuters
  Some California voters and activist groups sued the state's top election official on Tuesday in an effort to reverse the certification of certain electronic voting machines made by Diebold Inc. (DBD.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
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Diebold considering dumping e-voting unit; Engadget says PLEASE DO IT - Engadget

Love the idea of open sourcing the code and implementing the old “boxes” for the 2008 election!

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