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Diebold Certified in NC, In Spite Of Its Inability To Comply With Law

Today the State Board of Elections of North Carolina certified Diebold voting machines (motto: “trust us”) for use in North Carolina elections, in spite of the strong voter transparency laws of our state. Diebold admitted it couldn’t (or chose not to) comply with the law. Our board of elections didn’t seem to care and happily certified them, anyway.

I think a smackdown is in order for the SBOE and for Diebold. If North Carolinians care about free and fair elections, it’s time to speak up.

Read the EFF press release for more information.

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  2. This just goes to show what a few well-placed bribes can accomplish….

  3. That’s what was rumored by supporters of open voting. On the NC Verifiable Voting mailing list yesterday:

    A couple months ago I phoned an executive of a voting machine manufacturer that I thought probably produced as secure and reliable equipment as could now be found, to inform him of the deadline for answering the North Carolina RFP. He said that his company would not even agree to do business in North Carolina, not with that pack of crooks. Then he said that the head of the board of elections (I know who was referring to, but since he did not name him I won’t) had directly solicited him for a bribe. There’s more, but I’m not at liberty to tell. Anyway, when people wonder what it was that made Diebold so attractive to the SBOE, I presume that it was bribes or kickbacks. We need to demand an investigation. But I don’t know whether that would be the jurisdiction of the attorney general or of the secretary of state, or both.

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