Legal question re: Diebold/ES&S/Sequoia boycott of Leon County, FLA:

[Peace Patriot]

Did they not break anti-trust laws--if not RICO laws--by acting in concert to deny voting machines to Leon County, in order punish Ion Sancho for his discovering the security flaws in Diebold optiscans and decertifying those machines?

Isn't this like, say, Chevron, Exxon and Shell getting together to drive Citgo out of business? Or like Walmart, Home Depot and RiteAid getting together to jointly deny shipping or other services to some smaller retailers?

Is this not conspiracy? Is this not illegal?

And is this not even much, much worse than big corporations conspiring against smaller businesses--or conspiring to jack up prices? Is this not CONSPIRACY TO INTERFERE WITH U.S. ELECTIONS?

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"Not only has Diebold itself refused to do further business with Leon County as long as Sancho is election supervisor (refused, that is, either to correct the security flaws Sancho found or sell him different machines, or even return his phone calls), but the other two voting machine companies certified in Florida, ES&S and Sequoia, have also refused to do business with him." --Bob Koehler

http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm

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Throw Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and all other election theft machines into "Boston Harbor" NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

[In Truth We Trust]

1. whether it be a rhetorical question or not it deserves a response. K&R

Ion Sancho is a lone voice of integrity among a cabal of corrupt election supervisors. I can't help but wonder if we all collectively did a little financial detective work to srutinize the backgrounds of a sampling of elections officials what we might find?!?

[Boredtodeath]

2. Anti-trust violation, at least.

Collusion at a minimum.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Thanks for the replies! It was not a rhetorical question. I really got

to wondering about it. How is it that BOTH ES&S and Sequoia somehow decided to boycott Leon County? Was there not collusion in this? Could there be an evidence trail?

I mean, it sounds so much like a price-fixing conspiracy. Two biggies get together to set prices, or conditions, to harm someone else--in this case, the VOTERS of Leon County.

I wonder if Sancho has considered filing a criminal complaint. Anybody know what the local DA is like in Leon County? Any legal eagles interested? Or private investigators?

It smells. Big time.

[Wilms]

4. Ion Sancho is going after Diebold.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x681923

Why a price fixing scheme?

If anything, I'd think the suspicion would be that the big three colluded to hurt Sancho.

As likely, they're afraid Sancho would invite Hursti back for a hack. I think ES&S said as much in their "Dear John" letter to Ion.

And if Hursti got his hands on an ES&S or Sequoia machine, don't be too surprised if the same hack that got into Diebold would work.