Diebold Whistle-Blower Charged With Felony Access

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

Your Rights Online <http://yro.slashdot.org/> : Diebold Whistle-Blower
Charged With Felony Access 
Posted by CmdrTaco <http://cmdrtaco.net/>  on Monday February 27, @11:12AM
from the see-what-you-get-for-doing-good dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=123> The Courts 
Vicissidude writes "An employee of law firm Jones Day found legal memos
showing that their client, Diebold Election Systems, had used uncertified
voting systems in Alameda County elections beginning in 2002 - violating
California election law. The whistle-blower turned over the memos to the
Oakland Tribune, which published the legal memos on its website in April
2004. The company's AccuVote-TSx model was subsequently banned in May 2004.
Now, the
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/socal/la-me-diebold22feb22,0,336
00.story?coll=la-news-politics-local> whistle-blower, Stephen Heller, has
been charged in L.A. Superior Court with felony access to computer data,
commercial burglary, and receiving stolen property. If convicted on all
three counts, Heller could face up to three years and eight months in state
prison. Blair Berk, Heller's attorney state, "Certainly, someone who saw
those documents could have reasonably believed that thousands of voters were
going to be potentially disenfranchised in upcoming elections." Sandi
Gibbons, spokeswoman for the L.A. County district attorney's office rebuts,
"He's accused of breaking the law... If we feel that the evidence shows
beyond a reasonable doubt in our minds that a crime has been committed, it's
our job as a criminal prosecutor to file a case."" 

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