BBV: E-Vote Firm on the Hotseat ...Bev says Diebold..."LIES"

[Andy_Stephenson]

SACRAMENTO -- Diebold Election Systems President Bob Urosevich was forced to defend his company's business practices Wednesday at a contentious meeting in Sacramento before California's Voting Systems Panel that may result in the company's machines being barred from the state.

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If decertified, the company would lose millions of dollars in current and potential future county contracts. The company already has statewide contracts with Georgia and Maryland worth $54 million and $56 million, respectively. Other states and counties across the country are waiting to see how California responds to the issues before it.

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The panel is expected to announce its recommendation to Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Thursday. An anonymous source in the secretary of state's office indicated that the panel is leaning toward decertification. The source said the company had not helped its case by its continued resistance to offering candid and thorough responses to queries from election officials and the media.

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Diebold's problems, however, were exacerbated by the embarrassing release this week of several confidential documents leaked from its legal correspondence with Jones Day and posted online by voting activists (requires download), which indicate that the law firm warned the company last November that its installation of uncertified software violated California election law as well as the terms of its contract with counties. The documents, some of them dated from September 2003, outlined strategies for how Diebold intended to answer tough questions about its conduct over the last year and avoid legal repercussions.

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Voting activist Bev Harris, whose discovery of the Diebold source code online last year sparked the controversy over the security of electronic voting systems, called for the company's decertification.

"How many bites of the apple do (they) get? Diebold has out-and-out lied. They've been aware that they've been behaving in illegal ways. The trust is gone," said Harris, who was trailed to the meeting by a documentary crew filming for the Independent channel in Great Britain.

http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63172,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

[jean]

1. Yaaay! Bev, "trailed to the meeting by a documentary crew filming for the

Independent channel in Great Britain," is having increasingly more clout.

Decertification in CA - could it help Maryland unload their machines or is that state chained to Diebold for better or worse?

[Bushfire]

2. Lawsuit just filed in Maryland - Check LBN n/t

[jean]

4. thanks - the good news is rolling in!

[loudsue]

3. OMG!!! This is GREAT news!

:pals: Thank you guys SOOOO much for kickin' ass in California -- as well as around the country! :loveya:

Every time I get a link to these articles, I send them all over the world. I hope people in every State and country see these privatized vote counters for the crooks they are, and force the assholes into bankruptcy.

At least, when the repukes steal the next election, there will be a lot of people watching and scratching their heads -- and maybe jump on the BBV Patriot's bandwagon.

Can we all say in unison: "Republican MANDATE??? IT'S THE VOTING MACHINES, STUPID!!"

The 2000 and 2002 elections (PLUS the gropenator vote) have all been cases of stolen races. We need a grand jury investigation into these things. How do we go about getting such?

:kick:

[ParanoidPat]

5. Kick for Bob's ulcer!

:evilgrin::kick:

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. I wonder if he bought a supersized packet

of Rolaids...

Hey Bob...you're gonna get a visit. :evilgrin: