Diebold memos now on http://house.gov

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:06:24 -0800
From: Tim Bishop <geodog () cyberdude com>
Subject: Diebold memos now on http://house.gov
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To: dave () farber net, dgillmor () sjmercury com


Mr. Farber and Mr. Gillmor,

For IP, if you want.

Dennis Kucinich has outfoxed Diebold by putting some of some of the more 
egregious Diebold memos up on his part of the House of Representative web 
site, http://www.house.gov/kucinich/issues/voting.htm. Let's see Diebold 
serve the House with a DMCA letter.

Kudos to all who kept the memos and the voting machine issue alive. It 
seems to be picking up a little steam with the mainstream press. There was 
a WP article earlier this week about problems with voting machines in the 
last election in Fairfax county:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54432-2003Nov17.html
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At-large School Board member Rita S. Thompson, who narrowly lost 
reelection, said she is considering a challenge because of problems with 
voting machines. Voters in three precincts said in interviews that when 
they attempted to vote for her, the machines initially displayed an "x" 
next to her name but then, after a few seconds, the "x" disappeared.

Thompson has asked that electoral board staff members test every machine to 
determine the extent of such problems, and she said she is considering 
filing a lawsuit to force them to do so.

County election officials tried one of the machines in question and 
discovered that the glitch occurred about "one out of a hundred tries," 
Luca said. She added that she would take Thompson's request "under serious 
consideration."
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Thanks,
Tim Bishop

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