BlackBoxVoting.org shut down by legal nastygram from Diebold

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 11:00:53 -0400
To: declan () well com
From: Glenn Hauman <Glenn.Hauman () verizon net>
Subject: BlackBoxVoting shut down by legal threat

In case you missed it:

http://www.dailykos.com/archives/004289.html#004289

Diebold feels the heat. Sends out attack lawyers

Blackbox Voting.org is Bev Harris' site exposing the security 
vulnerabilities of the Diebold voting machines.

As of 8:46 p.m. PST, the site has been pulled, with the following message:

    Due to a dispute with Diebold, Incorporated, and its wholly owned 
subsidiary Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (collectively "Diebold"), which 
is claiming links to certain materials that do not reside on the 
blackboxvoting.org website constitute  copyright infringement, 
blackboxvoting.org has been temporarily disabled.

    We regret any inconvenience this may cause visitors and journalists to 
the blackboxvoting.org site and hope to have this matter resolved shortly.

    In the interim, send questions or information requests to 
admin () blackboxvoting org.

And do you want irony, with a capital "I", in a way that only a company run 
by a committed Bush fundraiser could manage?

Check out the Diebold corporate site. At the top of the page, in a flash 
animation, we get the following message:

    The Constitution protects our democracy.
    We protect the Constitution.

    The Bill of Rights protects our freedoms.
    We protect the Bill of Rights.

    The Declaration of Independence secured our freedoms.
    We secure the Declaration of Independence.

Well, except for that pesky First Amendment.
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Best-- Glenn Hauman, LotAuctions
       http://www.lotauctions.com
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