Whistle-blower Lawsuit Alleges E-voting Fraud

[kpete]

Whistle-blower Lawsuit Alleges E-voting Fraud
Marc Songini

August 07, 2006 (Computerworld) -- A federal whistle-blower lawsuit has been filed that claims one e-voting company knowingly sold electronic voting devices that did not perform as promised.

But details about the suit are sketchy because of secrecy rules surrounding whistle-blower litigation, according to Matt Schultz, an attorney at Levin Papantonio Thomas Mitchell Echsner & Proctor PA, the Pensacola, Fla.-based law firm that is handling the case. Schultz was assigned to the suit, but the lead attorneys are Mike Papantonio and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy, son of the late New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, gained attention with a recent story he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine in which he questioned the outcome of the 2004 presidential election. The whistle-blower lawsuit is not related to the allegations in the story.

The lawsuit was filed about four weeks ago, but Schultz was unable to divulge in which federal district the filing took place. He was also unable to discuss which e-voting machine vendor is targeted, because the document is under seal.

According to Schultz, employees at one of the four major e-voting vendors in the U.S. have testified to misrepresentations by the unnamed company about the accuracy, reliability and security of the direct recording electronic devices. DRE usually signifies a touch-screen voting system.

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[bleever]

1. May this whistle be heard across the nation.

[MissWaverly]

2. Our vote is being stolen from us: BUT it's a SECRET

I wonder if the one that defaulted to Bush 5 times when I tried to vote for Kerry is the one.
I wonder if this investigation will take as long as the Plame investigation.