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12. FL: (State Attorney General) Crist Goes After Voting Firms


Posted on Thu, Mar. 30, 2006

TALLAHASSEE
Crist goes after voting firms
State Attorney General Charlie Crist wants to know if the three companies authorized to sell voting machines in Florida have conspired to keep new machines out of the hands of a maverick elections supervisor in Tallahassee.
By MARC CAPUTO AND GARY FINEOUT
[email protected]

TALLAHASSEE - Florida's attorney general is pursuing anti-trust and civil-rights investigations of three voting-machine companies to see if they conspired in their refusal to sell equipment to the top elections official in Florida's capital.

Charlie Crist issued subpoenas to the companies Wednesday and demanded documents in response to 20 questions about their communications with each other, their marketing plans and why they refused to sell voting machines to Ion Sancho, Leon County's maverick elections supervisor. Responses are due May 5.


Crist said the companies need to explain their reasons for not selling the ATM-style, touch-screen voting machines that Leon County needs to comply with federal law to make it easier for blind people to vote. If Leon County is not in compliance, the entire state could face a lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice as early as May 1.


The companies -- Diebold, Elections Systems & Software and Sequoia Voting Systems -- all denied colluding and pledged to cooperate with the civil investigations. ES&S supplies Miami-Dade and Broward's touch-screen voting machines, which Sancho did not test.

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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/14218870.htm
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