GROUP FILES INJUNCTION TO HALT E-VOTING IN COLORADO & CALIFORNIA

[kpete]

Group files for injunction to halt evoting in Colorado, California

RAW STORY
Published: Wednesday June 28, 2006

A group is asking courts in Colorado and California to grant injunctions halting the use of certain electronic voting systems, RAW STORY has learned.

Voter Action will file a motion for a preliminary injunction today to halt the use of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting systems in Colorado's November elections. This comes on the heels of a complaint filed by the nonprofit on June 1 against the use of DRE's made by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems, ES&S, and Hart InterCivic in upcoming state elections.

In the filings, a number of academics and voting technology experts provided sworn declarations that the DRE's present unprecedented and unacceptable security and operational risks. Some will also testify at an evidentiary hearing to be scheduled before Judge Lawrence Manzanares of the Denver District Court.

In the coming days, Voter Action will also file for a motion for preliminary injunction in California to block the use of Diebold DRE's in the November 2006 elections. The case relating to this injunction was filed in March. The complaint in the California case, which led several counties to return to paper ballots, is directed at the counties intending to use Diebold touch screen computers.

more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Group_files_for_injunction_to_halt_0628.html

[Atman]

1. Here's the monkey-wrench...what happened to the old machines?

Is there a provision in the Help the GOP Maintain Power Act, aka, HAVA, that requires all the old machines to be destroyed and melted down into sheet metal for the WTC memorial or some such bullshit? It seems like something the GOP would do. Then, when the judge has to consider the merits of this case, he'll also have to look at what options are available to the voters. I can see a judge saying, "Gosh, these DRE's really are big-time fucked up, BUT...all the old machines have already been melted into bullets for the troops. So, with no other options for voters, I cannot rule for an injuction."

[Guaranteed]

3. Yup. That's the proverbial chimp. nt

[Guaranteed]

2. A fair judge will give it to them, too.

The public interest factor is HUGE when it comes to preliminary injunctions.