ENCAMINHANDO:
CALIFORNIA JOINS SUIT AGAINST DIEBOLD
The
state of California, as well as the state's Alameda County, this
week
joined a lawsuit filed by a computer programmer and voting rights
advocate against Diebold Inc. for selling faulty hardware and
software
for electronic voting. The original plaintiffs, Jim March
and Bev
Harris, are asking the courts to force Diebold to refund all
of the
money paid to it for the state's electronic voting machines.
Problems
with Diebold's products caused more than half of the polling
places in
San Diego County to open late for the state's March
primary, and at
least 6,000 voters in Alameda county had to use paper
ballots instead
of Diebold's electronic voting machines. Lowell
Finley, attorney for
the original plaintiffs in the case, said the
decision to join shows
that the "state clearly believes there's
merit to the case."
Meanwhile, the state decided not to file
criminal charges against
Diebold, a move state voting officials
considered after California
Secretary of State Kevin Shelley
decertified one Diebold system for
being unreliable and jeopardizing
the state's elections.
San Jose Mercury News, 8 September 2004
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/9608838.htm
