Originally published October 22 2003
Students protest against Diebold electronic voting machine firm
by Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
When students linked to Diebold's internal documents showing problems with their electronic voting machine equipment, Diebold took legal action against the students. In response, the students are protesting...
- A group of students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania has launched
an "electronic civil disobedience" campaign against voting machine maker
Diebold Election Systems.
- The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and
other website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos
that reveal the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting
software for years but sold the faulty systems to states anyway.
- Diebold has been sending out cease-and-desist letters to force
websites and ISPs to take down the memos, which the company says were
stolen from its server in violation of copyright law.
- Doherty and the EFF launched their own resistance campaign last week
after a news site, the Independent Media Center, and its Internet
provider, the Online Policy Group, received a cease-and-desist letter
from Diebold.
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