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California To Sue Diebold; Diebold
Pleased

California To Sue Diebold; Diebold
Pleased 09/07/2004 09:59 PM
The latest in the Diebold saga in California is that Attorney General Bill Lockyer has decided to sue the company, saying they made false claims about their product. Amusingly, Diebold continues to mislead in their response to the lawsuit by noting that they are: "pleased Lockyer dropped the probe." When the only reason the probe has been dropped is because there's enough info to sue, it seems like there's not much to be "pleased" about.

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DieBold, Die Die Die!

DieBold, Die Die Die! 12/22/2003 10:14 AM
From Slashdot: tassii writes "Looks like Diebold is in yet more trouble. In this article from Wired.com, an audit of the Diebold E-Voting machines revealed that the company installed uncertified software in all 17 counties that use its electronic voting equipment. While 14 counties used software that had been qualified by federal authorities but not certified by state authorities, three counties, including Los Angeles, used software that had never been certified by the state or qualified by federal authorities for use in any election. And in this article, Wired.com is reporting that at least five convicted felons secured management...

More Diebold problems.

More Diebold problems. 11/16/2003 11:30 AM
Anthony Argyriou uncovers what seems to be a serious problem either with California voting machines or the vote tallying system: The Secretary of State's summary of votes on the Davis recall shows three counties--Alameda, Kern, and Plumas--that apparently had zero voters who didn't vote on the recall. Not one. All three counties used Diebold machines. Other counties ranged from 0.5% to 10.3% of voters not voting on the recall. More from Rick Hasen, a top election law scholar. [Via Volokh.]

Thumbs down on Diebold

Thumbs down on Diebold 05/03/2004 05:17 AM
USA Today May 3 2004 9:07AM GMT

Diebold Cashes In

Diebold Cashes In 07/21/2004 02:49 PM
ATM and voting systems manufacturer announces record earnings.

California Says No More Diebold

California Says No More Diebold 04/22/2004 08:00 PM
Following story after story after story of questionable actions by Diebold with their electronic voting machines, culminating in the news that they knew they were breaking the law by using uncertified software in their machines during last month's primaries, a commission has recommended that California decertify all Diebold voting machines. Secretary of State Kevin Shelley has until the end of next week to make a decision on whether or not to follow the recommendation, and so far he's shown a good understanding of the issues involved (he is the one who said all e-voting machines should have a paper trail). Diebold's response is typical. Instead of admitting that they screwed up repeatedly in very damaging ways, they claim that being decertified "doesn't solve the problems" - suggesting that it's not their fault that they didn't solve their own problems and went ahead with illegally using software that hadn't been certified.

Krugman on Diebold

Krugman on Diebold 12/02/2003 01:26 PM
Paul Krugman lays out the e-voting machine issues in his column. Here's his opening paragraph: Inviting Bush supporters to a fund-raiser, the host wrote, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." No surprise there. But Walden O'Dell - who says that he wasn't talking about his business operations - happens to be the chief executive of Diebold Inc., whose touch-screen voting machines are in increasingly widespread use across the United States....

Other News: Diebold

Other News: Diebold 05/03/2004 09:39 AM
California is pursuing civil and criminal actions against Diebold for fraud in a drive to install its electronic voting machines.

Students, ISP Sue Diebold

Students, ISP Sue Diebold 11/03/2003 07:20 PM

Cringely on Diebold

Cringely on Diebold 12/08/2003 09:14 AM
Robert Cringely writes: Diebold makes a lot of ATM machines. They make machines that sell tickets for trains and subways. They make store checkout scanners, including self-service scanners. They make machines that allow access to buildings for people with magnetic cards. They make machines that use magnetic cards for payment in closed systems like university dining rooms. All of these are machines that involve data input that results in a transaction, just like a voting machine. But unlike a voting machine, every one of these other kinds of Diebold machines — EVERY ONE — creates a paper trail and...

Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary

Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary 12/18/2003 05:50 AM
Diebold, already in hot water for the management of its electronic voting machines, takes more flak for having some ex-cons in management positions at a subsidiary.

Diebold for Democracy

Diebold for Democracy 07/23/2004 06:13 PM
Creased and curled voting receipts, or the lack of them, may be the hanging chads of this year's elections.

EFF sues Diebold!

EFF sues Diebold! 11/03/2003 05:59 PM
EFF is suing Diebold on behalf of the Online Policy Group, who are being threatened with a bogus copyright action in retaliation for linking to a website that describes the technical failings off Diebold's voting machines.

"Diebold's blanket cease-and-desist notices are a blatant abuse of copyright law," said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. "Publication of the Diebold documents is clear fair use because of their importance to the public debate over the accuracy of electronic voting machines."

Diebold threatened not only the ISPs of direct publishers of the corporate documents, but also the ISPs of those who merely publish links to the documents. In one such instance, the ISP Online Policy Group (OPG) refused to comply with Diebold's demand that it prohibit Independent Media Network (IndyMedia) from linking to Diebold documents. Neither IndyMedia nor any other publisher hosted by OPG has yet published the Diebold documents directly.

"As an ISP committed to free speech, we are defending our users' right to link to information that's critical to the debate on the reliability of electronic voting machines," said OPG's Colocation Director David Weekly. "This case is an important step in defending free speech by helping protect small publishers and ISPs from frivolous legal threats by large corporations."

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The Diebold Papers and the Law

The Diebold Papers and the Law 04/24/2004 12:57 PM

Ernest Miller discusse s a judge's ruling that the Oakland Tribune must return legal memos it was leaked about the latest Diebold e-voting fiasco. His main point, and it's a good one:

"Of course, one might note that bloggers would have been much more likely to publish a story based on the memos and publish all the memos simultaneously. There would be nothing left to return to Jones Day under the judge's order; it all would have been published on the internet. By trying to maintain an exclusive, the newspaper has created the possibility that the documents will be suppressed."

can this really be true: diabolic
diebold

can this really be true: diabolic
diebold 09/03/2004 09:26 PM
I've never really bought the conspiracy story surrounding the Diebold voting machine stuff. I've been happy that the issue has been raised (and even happier that the battle about copyright that Diebold's effort at censoring criticism created also created the Free Culture movement at Swarthmore, and now spreading). But if this story is true, I will have to rethink my view. As reported at Blackboxvoting:

By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.

Is this really true?

More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities

More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities 09/22/2004 11:53 AM

Calif. Whistleblowers Sue Diebold

Calif. Whistleblowers Sue Diebold 07/12/2004 05:38 AM
Unsealing a lawsuit by electronic-voting critics filed in November, California's attorney general reveals the details of a suit against Diebold that alleges shoddy balloting equipment exposed California elections to hackers and software bugs.

California votes against Diebold

California votes against Diebold 04/22/2004 02:41 PM
CNET Apr 22 2004 7:14PM GMT

Diebold Gets Stay in California

Diebold Gets Stay in California 01/17/2004 10:53 PM
Expecting California officials to rule on Diebold Election Systems' recent actions in the state, voting activists descended upon the capital Thursday to express their views. But nothing happened. Kim Zetter reports from Sacramento.

Diebold gives up e-vote clampdown

Diebold gives up e-vote clampdown 12/02/2003 05:26 AM
The archive is safe

Case Against Diebold To Continue...
Hopefully

Case Against Diebold To Continue...
Hopefully 12/02/2003 09:51 AM
While Diebold quietly backed down from their legal threats against anyone hosting their internal documents, showing that they knew their e-voting machines were not secure, one of the groups suing them says they're going to pus h forward with the lawsuit to get a decision saying that such whistleblowing (and especially just linking to others hosting such documents) is not a violation of copyright law. Hopefully the courts will hear the case. Unfortunately, recent history suggests that now that Diebold has withdrawn their lawsuits, the court may say the matter is closed - meaning that companies like Diebold can continue to improperly use the DMCA to threaten anyone blowing the whistle, unless those people can generate enough bad publicity to force the company to back down.

EFF And Stanford Law Clinic Sue Diebold

EFF And Stanford Law Clinic Sue Diebold 11/03/2003 02:35 PM
As Diebold continues to send out cease-and-desist letters to shut down whistle-blower sites that show just how insecure Diebold's electronic voting software is, the EFF and Stanford Law Clinic are representing two Swarthmore students (and an ISP) to sue Diebold to get them to stop issuing cease-and-desist letters, saying that they are specious legal threats. In the case of the ISP, Diebold sent a DMCA cease-and-desist takedown letter because someone on their sites simply linked to the documents. There are any number of problems with what Diebold is doing. They're trying to force down sites that simply link to information, which goes too far. They're trying to stifle whistleblowing activity that exposes their voting software's flaws (something that is important to be made public, as Diebold has a large share of the electronic voting machine market). Finally, they're using the DMCA for all of this, in a way that it was clearly not intended to be used. The idea behind the DMCA (as flawed as the thinking may be) was to stop someone from taking content and reselling (or giving it away) it as their own - undercutting the market. No one is trying to do that in this case. The information being brought out isn't designed to compete with Diebold, but to expose them for having notoriously weak security on a product that clearly needs to be very secure.

California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold

California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold 09/07/2004 10:12 PM

Diebold Settles With California

Diebold Settles With California 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
Now that the elections are over, and electronic voting isn't in the same sort of spotlight it was a few months ago, Diebold has settle d their lawsuit with the state of California, agreeing to pay $2.6 million for fraudulent claims made about their product. Some of that money will go towards better training of poll workers. The company also promises that next time (no, really) they will actually meet the standards that have been set and won't mess with the software at the last minute without telling anyone. It remains to be seen whether or not that actually happens, as the company seems to have a history of repeatedly ignoring the type of moves that might make people feel more comfortable knowing their vote was actually counted.

La EFF contraataca: Diebold vs
Democracia

La EFF contraataca: Diebold vs
Democracia 11/10/2003 11:20 PM

Diebold Machine May Get Boot

Diebold Machine May Get Boot 04/23/2004 05:30 AM
A voting panel urges California officials to stop using a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems, and recommends that the state consider filing civil and criminal charges against the company. Kim Zetter reports from Sacramento.

Diebold May Be Banned From California

Diebold May Be Banned From California 12/17/2003 01:13 PM
It's looking like some of Diebold's choices may be coming back to haunt them a bit. While they've been loudly unapologetic for security holes that were found in their offerings (and quick to pull the legal trigger on anyone who pointed them out), perhaps they should have spent a little more time "doing the right thing" rather than "covering up the wrong thing." The latest news is that California may ban Diebold from selling voting machines in the state, after investigating the claims that some of their machines were using software that had not been certified. Meanwhile, Fortune magazine has voted paperless electronic voting as the worst technology of 2003.

Diebold out of Calif. county

Diebold out of Calif. county 05/27/2004 03:23 AM
USA Today May 27 2004 6:54AM GMT

Diebold Bans Political Donations

Diebold Bans Political Donations 06/08/2004 05:47 AM
Stung by criticism about its chief executive's political fund raising, Diebold says it won't let its senior executives make donations to candidates. Employees at its election systems division also will be barred.

Slashback: Diebold, Cluster, Radiation

Slashback: Diebold, Cluster, Radiation 10/31/2003 07:28 PM

Diebold drops DMCA case

Diebold drops DMCA case 12/02/2003 12:15 PM
USA Today Dec 2 2003 10:51AM ET

Diebold Backs Off Legal Challenge

Diebold Backs Off Legal Challenge 12/02/2003 06:32 AM
In August, activists posted Diebold memos online that suggested the company knew its electronic voting machines were insecure. The company responded with legal threats. Now it's pulling back in the face of opposition. By Kim Zetter.

State to Slam Diebold With Suit

State to Slam Diebold With Suit 09/08/2004 05:03 AM
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer will move forward with a false-claims lawsuit against the electronic voting-machine maker. The Golden State accuses Diebold of installing electronic voting systems that were not tested or approved.

Wired News: Con Job at Diebold
Subsidiary

Wired News: Con Job at Diebold
Subsidiary 12/19/2003 11:41 AM
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at a manufacturer of electronic voting machines .. felons working in senior management at an e-voting booth vendor .. Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary .. outrage at this .. Oh boy .. Lovely .. Wired

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Techaos: Indian EVM compared with
Diebold

Techaos: Indian EVM compared with
Diebold 05/15/2004 05:19 PM
Indian Electronic Voting vs. American Electronic Voting .. E Voting: Indian EVM compared with Diebold

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Voting panel grills Diebold

Voting panel grills Diebold 04/21/2004 06:26 PM
The elections systems vendor comes under fierce questioning the day after a staff report for the California secretary of state charged it with breaking state elections law.

Diebold voting machines vulnerability

Diebold voting machines vulnerability 08/31/2004 08:20 AM
Cory Doctorow: Diebold's voting machines have a stunning security defect:

Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time.

By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.

This program is not "stupidity" or sloppiness. It was designed and tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments.

Link (Thanks, Michael!)

Diebold To Drop Suit Against
Whistleblowers

Diebold To Drop Suit Against
Whistleblowers 12/02/2003 07:38 AM
segment writes "Fox News reports that 'Diebold said it would not sue dozens of students, computer scientists and Internet service providers who had received ...
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