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Info: Bev Harris Telephone Interview up as Online Video at INN World Report
Update:
William Rivers Pitt | Electronic Voting: What You Need To Know
Truthout.org -10/20
Update: Chapters 8 and 9 of "BLACK BOX VOTING: Ballot Tampering in The 21st Century" now available
Theinquirer.net -Saturday October 18, 2003
Diebold tactic of attacking ISPs attacked
THE ANTICS OF DIEBOLD, a maker of electronic voting systems, which has been leaning on ISPs to get them to prevent linking to a election of its internal memos here, have drawn the EFF into the ring.
The memos seem to show how Diebold sought to demo software it didn't have and apparently installed outdated versions of its GEM software in elections.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it stepped in because it wants to defend the right to link to controversial information about flaws in electronic voting systems: "What topic could be more important to our democracy than discussions about the mechanics and legitimacy of electronic voting systems now being introduced nationwide?" said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer, in a statement.
Diebold sent out dozens of notices to ISPs hosting IndyMedia and other websites linking to or publishing copies of Diebold internal memos. The only ISP to resist so far, says the EFF, is the non-profit Online Policy Group (OPG) ISP.
ISP Rejects Diebold Copyright Claims Against News Website For Immediate Release: Thursday, October 16, 2003 Wendy Seltzer Will Doherty EFF Defends Right to Publish Links to Electronic Voting Memos San Francisco - Defending the right to link to controversial information about flaws in electronic voting systems, EFF announced today it will defend an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a news website publisher against claims of indirect copyright infringement from the electronic voting machines' manufacturer. On October 10, 2003, electronic voting company Diebold, Inc., sent a cease-and-desist letter to the nonprofit Online Policy Group (OPG) ISP demanding that OPG remove a page of links published on an Independent Media Center (IndyMedia) website located on a computer server hosted by OPG. Diebold sent out dozens of similar notices to ISPs hosting IndyMedia and other websites linking to or publishing copies of Diebold internal memos. OPG is the only ISP so far to resist the takedown demand from Diebold. "What topic could be more important to our democracy than discussions about the mechanics and legitimacy of electronic voting systems now being introduced nationwide?" said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer. "EFF won't stand by as corporations like Diebold chill important online debate by churning out legal notices to ISPs that usually just take down legitimate content rather than face the legal risk." The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) passed by Congress in 1998 provides a "safe harbor" as an incentive for ISPs to take down user-posted content when they receive cease-and-desist letters such as the ones sent by Diebold. By removing the content, or forcing the user to do so, for a minimum of 10 days, an ISP can take itself out of the middle of any copyright claim. As a result, few ISPs have tested whether they would face any liability for such user activity in the first place. EFF has been exposing some of the ways the safe harbor limits online speech through the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. "We defend strongly the free speech right of our client IndyMedia to publish links to Diebold memos relevant to the public debate about electronic voting machine security," explained OPG Executive Director Will Doherty. "Diebold's claim of copyright infringement from linking to information posted elsewhere on the Web is ridiculous, and even more silly is the claim that we as an ISP could be liable for our client's web links." For this release: Cease-and-desist letter Diebold sent to OPG: IndyMedia Web page subject to Diebold cease-and-desist Security researchers discover huge flaws in e-voting system: Link to Chilling Effects on DMCA safe harbor provisions: The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and government to support free expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported organization and maintains one of the most linked-to websites in the world at About Online Policy Group: The Online Policy Group (OPG) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to online policy research, outreach, and action on issues such as access, privacy, the digital divide, and digital defamation. The organization fulfills its motto of "One Internet With Equal Access for All" through programs such as donation-based email, email list hosting, website hosting, domain registrations, colocation services, technical consulting, educational training, and refurbished computer donations. The California Community Colocation Project (CCCP) and QueerNet are OPG projects. OPG focuses on Internet participants' civil liberties and human rights, Find out more at About IndyMedia: Indymedia is an international network working to build a decentralized, non-commercial media infrastructure to counter an increasingly consolidated corporate media. Indymedia collectives have spread rapidly since the WTO protests in Seattle 1999, with IMC groups now working throughout North & South America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania, accessible through US-corruption, deeper than you think http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=15722 http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm Black Box Voting In The 21st Century SAIC+VOTING INDUSTRY+LOCKHEED More details and analysis of voting-laws Black Box Voting In The 21st Century Offline The book "Black Box Voting In The 21st Century" has been taken offline by the internetprovider, apparantly. See The book reveils many issues and contains an extensive interview with an exworker at Diebold. The whole book and two new chapters can be downloaded at:
Check out also Former Diebold Worker: Company installed Uncertified Patches
Independent UK Article now also mirrored by New Zealand Herald:
US voting system vulnerable to fraud
NZ Herald -19.10.2003
Part 1 of a 4-part investigation by ANDREW GUMBEL of the Independent
INVESTIGATION - Something very odd happened in the mid-term elections in the US state of Georgia last November.
On the eve of the vote, opinion polls showed Roy Barnes, the incumbent Democratic governor, leading by between 9 and 11 points.
In a somewhat closer, keenly watched Senate race, polls indicated that Max Cleland, the popular Democrat up for re-election, was ahead by two to five points against his Republican challenger, Saxby Chambliss...
Chapters 8 and 9 of "BLACK BOX VOTING: Ballot Tampering in The 21st Century" now available
by repost
Thursday October 16, 2003 at 02:10 PM
San Francisco - Defending the right to link to controversial information about flaws in electronic voting systems, EFF announced today it will defend an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and a news website publisher against claims of indirect copyright infringement from the electronic voting
machines' manufacturer.
Contact:
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
wendy at eff.org
+1 415 436-9333 x125 (office),
Executive Director
Online Policy Group
press at onlinepolicy.org
+1 415 826-3532 (please leave message)
ISP Rejects Diebold Copyright Claims Against News Website
http://www.eff.org/Legal/ISP_liability/20031016_eff_pr.php
http://www.eff.org/Legal/ISP_liability/cease_desist_letter.php
letter:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/09/1649419_comment.php
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20030723_eff_pr.php
http://www.chillingeffects.org/dmca512/
About EFF:
http://www.eff.org/
like access, privacy, safety, and serving schools, libraries, disabled, elderly, youth, women, and sexual, gender, and ethnic minorities.
http://www.onlinepolicy.org/
http://www.indymedia.org/
by vlo
Thursday October 16, 2003 at 04:26 PM
http://www.talion.com/voting-machines.html
http://www.votefraud.org/who_owns_diebold.htm
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=86
http://www.thoughtcrimes.org/mt/archives/000973.html
http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
by violet
Friday October 17, 2003 at 10:30 AM
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file;=article&sid;=86
http://www.talion.com/blackboxvoting.org.htm
Or http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup
Diebold Voting Controversy picked up by British Media
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