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sweetheart

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Fri Nov-12-04 12:46 AM
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CA settles with diabold 2.6m

State settles e-voting lawsuit
SAN FRANCISCO - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced Wednesday a $2.6 million settlement with Diebold Inc., resolving a lawsuit alleging that the company sold the state and several counties shoddy voting equipment.

Although critics characterized the settlement as a slap on the wrist, Diebold also agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to partially reimburse Alameda, San Diego and other counties for the cost of paper backup ballots, ink and other supplies in last week's election. California's secretary of state banned the use of one type of Diebold machine in May, after problems with the machines disenfranchised an unknown number of voters in the March primary.
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http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/10154349.htm

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Gyre

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Fri Nov-12-04 12:52 AM
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1. Should be $2.6 trillion

Anybody in the AG's office ever hear of punitives/liquidated damages?

Pansies, prancing around in jack-boots, pretending to be baaad.

Gyre

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sweetheart

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Fri Nov-12-04 01:49 AM
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3. the award does seem a trifle small

I'm wondering if by settling like this, whether the evidence is
sealed. I was reading BevHarris talking about something about
sealing evidence.... and i wonder.

It really is too small, considering the damages. Justice is not
done... again.. in an american court.

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Fri Nov-12-04 12:56 AM
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2. Wired Story Link

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65674,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_8

Diebold agreed Wednesday to pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by California alleging that the electronic voting machine company sold the state and several counties shoddy voting equipment.

Although critics characterized the settlement as a slap on the wrist, Diebold also agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to partially reimburse Alameda, San Diego and other counties for the cost of paper backup ballots, ink and other supplies in last week's election. California's secretary of state banned the use of one type of Diebold machine in May, after problems with the machines disenfranchised an unknown number of voters in the March primary.

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rawstory

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Fri Nov-12-04 01:52 AM
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4. old dupe.

was from yesterday.

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magellan

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Fri Nov-12-04 02:06 AM
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5. I forwarded it

to Keith Olbermann along with this note:

"Here's why so many of us are upset about the use of Diebold/ES&S/Sequoia touchscreen and opti-scan voting systems on Nov. 2. It isn't the desire to overturn the election that has us on the warpath; it's our grave concern that these systems are, to this day, even more unreliable and prone to tampering than good ol' hanging chads and butterfly ballots!!"

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Fri Nov-12-04 06:13 AM
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6. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=977699

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