Criminal prosecution of Diebold on the horizon in CA...

Tue Apr 20 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

This is huge. Apparently, during the EFF/Diebold litigation (presumably since that's when Jones Day became Diebold's West Coast legal representation), Diebold was warned by their attorneys that they were violating the law with respect to running uncertified software on electronic voting machines in California. There has got to be some criminal prosecution in the works and I can imagine some sort of refund from the company (I'm trying to get my hands on the Alameda Co. / Diebold procurement contract).

Diebold knew of legal risks

By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER

Attorneys for Diebold Election Systems Inc. warned in late November that its use of uncertified vote-counting software in Alameda County violated California election law and broke its $12.7 million contract with Alameda County.

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