The price of Democracy: 2.6 Million

[rman]

Diebold to Settle with California
December 17, 2004
By Clint Boulton
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3449691?headline=Diebold~to~Settle~with~California

A California court has approved a $2.6 million settlement between Diebold and the State of California and Alameda County. The state and county had sued Diebold for fraudulent claims about the security of its electronic voting machines.

Diebold, whose subsidiary Diebold Election Systems manufactures the voting machines at the heart of the suit, will pay the state $2.6 million, and Alameda County another $100,000.

The court ordered that $500,000 of the lump sum be used to help form a voter education and poll worker training program in California, coordinated through the University of California Institute of Governmental Studies.

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The settlement is the fruit of a suit filed in September by California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who argued that Diebold was not truthful about the security and reliability of its electronic voting machines.

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Looks like Greg Palast knew what he was talking about when he wrote the book "The best Democracy money can buy".

[enough]

1. Cheap at twice the price.

You can hear them laughing.

[Rush1184]

2. EXACTLY!!!!!