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== Current controversy ==
Diebold's [[voting machine]]s, which are made by its subsidiary '''Diebold Election Systems''' (DES), have caused a public uproar among some opponents, some of which are engaged in "electronic civil disobedience" against legal attempts by Diebold to stop the release and publication of a number of internal memos.


In September [[2003]], a large number of internal Diebold memos, dating back to mid-[[2001]], were posted to the Web by the website organizations [[Why War?]] and the [[Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons]]. Diebold's critics believe that these memos reflect badly on Diebold's voting machines and business practices. For example: "Do not to offer damaging opinions of our systems, even when their failings become obvious." (Election Support Guide; pg. 10 -- [http://www.kucinich.us/e-voting/page05.php])

Diebold attempted to stop the release and publication of a number of internal memos
by sending [[cease and desist]] letters to sites hosting these documents demanding that they be removed in violation of the [[DMCA]] found in § 512 of the United States Copyright Act.
When it turned out that some of the challenged groups would not back down, Diebold retracted their threat.
In October 2004, Judge Jeremy Fogel of the District Court of Northern California ruled that Diebold knew that publishing the memos was not a violation of copyright and Diebold was found in violation of the [[DMCA]].

In December [[2003]], an internal Diebold memo was leaked to the press, sparking controversy in Maryland. Maryland officials requested that Diebold add the functionality of printing paper voting records. The leaked memo said, "As a business, I hope we're smart enough to charge them up the wazoo [for this feature]".

In 2004, after an initial investigation into the company's practices by the [[California]] [[Secretary of State]] [[Kevin Shelley]] caused him to issue a ban on one model of Diebold voting machines California, the [[Attorney General]] of [[California]], [[Bill Lockyer]], sued Diebold, charging that it had given false information about the security and reliability of Diebold Election Systems machines that were sold to the state. To settle the case, Diebold agreed to pay $2.6 million and to implement certain reforms. [http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3449691?headline=Diebold~to~Settle~with~California]

Recently, in June 2005, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that when given access to Diebold vote-counting computers, [[Bev Harris]]-a huge critic of Diebold's voting machines- was able to make 65,000 votes disappear simply by changing the memory card that stores voting results for one that had been altered. Although the machines are supposed to record changes to data stored in the system, they showed no record of tampering after the memory cards were swapped. In response, a spokesperson for the Department of State said that, "Information on a blog site is not viable or credible."
[http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2005/leon_florida_vote_test.php]


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Revision as of 22:21, 17 November 2005

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Diebold, Incorporated NYSE: DBD is a security systems corporation which is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), electronic and physical security products (including vaults and currency processing systems), and software and integrated systems for global financial and commercial markets. Diebold was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio in August, 1876, and is headquartered in Green, Ohio.

Diebold Election Systems, a subsidiary of Diebold, surrounded by controversy, has recently entered the business of creating electronic voting terminals and solutions for government entities.

The term "black box voting" was coined to describe machines that, like those made by Diebold, use closed source software, do not print paper ballots, and do not use any reliable digital authentication techniques.

Diebold Election Systems

Diebold Elections Systems is run by Bob Urosevich, who has been working in the election systems industry since 1976. He is also an active Republican, which has led to questions of conflict of interest. In 1979, Mr. Urosevich founded American Information Systems. He served as the President of AIS from 1979 through 1992, and that company, now known as Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S), counted over 100 million ballots in the U.S. 2000 General Election. Bob's brother, Todd Urosevich, is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales with ES&S. In 1995, Bob Urosevich started I-Mark Systems, whose product was a touch screen voting system utilizing a smart card and biometric encryption authorization technology. Global Election Systems, Inc. acquired I-Mark in 1997, and on July 31, 2000 Mr. Urosevich was promoted from Vice President of Sales and Marketing and New Business Development to President and Chief Operating Officer. On January 22, 2002, Diebold announced the acquisition of GES, then a manufacturer and supplier of electronic voting terminals and solutions. The total purchase price, in stock and cash, was $24.7 million. Global Election Systems subsequently changed its name to Diebold Election Systems, Inc.



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