California SUING Voting Machine Maker For $15 Million

[kpete]

California suing voting machine maker for $15 million

California Secretary of State Debra Bowen on Monday sued a Nebraska voting machine company, seeking fines and reimbursements of nearly $15 million from the firm for allegedly selling nearly 1,000 uncertified machines to San Francisco and four other counties.

"ES&S ignored the law over and over and over again and it got caught," Bowen said in a statement after filing suit against the company. "I am not going to stand on the sidelines and watch a voting system vendor come into the state, ignore the laws and make millions of dollars from California's taxpayers in the process."

Bowen's decision could be a windfall for the affected counties. In the suit, the secretary of state is seeking a $10,000 penalty for each of the uncertified machines sold in the state, with half that fine intended to go to the counties that bought them.

ES&S also would have to reimburse the counties for the full cost of the machines, but the counties would be able to keep the AutoMARKs, which are now slated to receive full state certification in early December.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/20/BA5QTFFQF.DTL&tsp=1

[SoCalDem]

1. Get paper ballots First..SUE ..later

Lawsuits are nice,but it's just another way to kick that can farther down the road to the "next" election..The poor horsie never "gets" the carrot..he just sees it dangling in front of his mouth..

and even if the lawsuit is successful, the people who lost their votes are uncompensated..

[kansasblue]

2. 'money' is their language, I think this helps. Go Debra

I agree with you on the paper ballots!