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Diebold to Pay $2.6M Due to Insecure Voting Machines

December 20, 2004 8:38 PM

Diebold, provider for most of the election machines used in the past election, has settled with the state of California for providing insecure voting machines.  Researchers showed that the systems could "easily allow someone to cast multiple votes in the same election."  Diebold is paying California and Alameda County $2.6 million. 

Diebold is facing charges in other states as well. 

In 2003, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell was under fire for proclaiming that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."  O'Dell, a top contributers to the Bush Campaign, was proclaimed a "Pioneer" at Bush's Crawford, Texas Ranch during a fund raising dinner, sharing a spot once held by Enron CEO Kenneth Lay

It was also recently discovered that, in 2000, Florida Republican Congressman Tom Feeney paid a NASA programmer to build a prototype that could change votes on touchscreen voting machines.  It is still unknown if what was built had effected the election results.

BlackBoxVoting has been covering these and many other voting issues, something that the US media has been ignoring since the election.

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