BBV: If you haven't visited these two web sites lately,

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you should do so! The Why-War site has a beautiful page dedicated to Diebold, and the Verified Voting page has been extensively redesigned and updated.

A snip from Why-War:

Day Sixteen, Nov. 5: Off-year elections occurred in a handful of states and municipalities yesterday, and the results for electronic voting machines were decidedly mixed. In Northern Virginia, Republicans are filing a lawsuit after electronic voting machines manufactured by Advanced Voting Solutions malfunctioned and were removed from polling sites.

Diebold, on the other hand, was having more legal problems than anything else. In Alameda County, Calif., Diebold once again installed software that had never been certified by election officials, violating elections law:
State and county officials were dismayed last week to learn that Diebold Elections Systems Inc. altered the software running in Alameda County's touchscreen voting machines yet neither submitted it for state testing nor even notified state authorities of the change.

Diebold broke election law in a similar situation during the 2002 Georgia elections.

Speaking of Georgia, Diebold election officials in Macon apparently forgot to program the election computers to accept more than one write-in candidate:
The new touch-screen machines were counting the total number of votes for write-in candidates ... but were not breaking down that number by individual. ... Caldwell attributed the problem to officials with Diebold, the maker of the machines, who programmed the voting machines this week but were unaware there was more than one write-in candidate.

Are you comfortable trusting your vote to this company?

Paul Roberts at IDG News Service explains what the EFF lawsuit could mean for colleges and universities:
According to the DMCA, ISPs must address allegations in a copyright claim immediately, regardless of whether the person or persons responsible for the alleged violations have had a chance to respond to the charges ... the problem gets even thornier when the information universities are being asked to suppress is contributing to an intellectual or political debate, as the Diebold documents are, said . "Universities are struggling with the question of whether they are ISPs first and universities second, or whether its the other way around," Palfrey said. "At some point we need to stand up in support of academic freedom."