Down With Diebold!

E-voting panel wants to dump troubled system
By Elise Ackerman

Mercury News
Via Joi Ito
SACRAMENTO - Less than seven months before the presidential election, an advisory panel Thursday unanimously recommended an unprecedented ban of touch-screen election equipment used in four California counties.
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The state began investigating Diebold soon after the November 2003 election, when it discovered the company had installed untested software on what turned out to be all 17 voting systems it had sold to California counties. Those systems include more traditional optical-scan equipment.
Of course there were http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=217&row=2 in the Y2K election. Besides Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' order to Scrub African Americans from the ballots, There were also the celebrated Chad Issues, and some errors in the census report. At present we are too late to eliminate the Machines from the Election. At best we can hope to make the election votes countable.

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Secretary of State Kevin Shelley
Attorney General Bill Lockyer
Marc Carrel, assistant secretary of state
Diebold
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