Diebold Chases Links To Leaked Memos

bllfrnch writes "Mary Hodder, over at The Berkeley School of Journalism's bIPlog, reports that electronic voting bigwig Diebold has begun sending cease-and-desist letters to universities whose students are linking to hijacked internal company memos that elucidate the company's level of respect for citizens' right to vote. Particularly shocking is the line: "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.""

Don't vote ..

[maharg]

.. it only encourages them ;o)

Re:Stupid Quote

[maharg]

.. their mission seems to be "to boldly die like no e-voting company has died before"

Re:Stupid Quote

[nickco3]

Of course voting can change things, for example I'm sure the people of Iraq would have loved to vote a new leader when Saddam Hussein was in power

No need to put that in the past tense. I'm sure the people of Iraq would still love the chance to vote for their own leader.

Re:Stupid Quote

[Marcus Brody]

Shock Horror Slashdot Headline: Americans still dont understand sarcasm

I thought this was slashdot, not the onion....

And the corollary quote, with Diebold in mind

[swb]

Seen on the back of car yesterday:

"Those who vote change nothing. Those who count the votes change everything."

Re:Illegal voteing

[Anonymous Coward]

You may think it is funny now, but others might not get your humor one day when your name pops up in a google cache or email archive.

Surely that is their problem, not ours. Let me give you an example of something nobody else seems to find funny, but I wouldn't mind being on the public record.

Two strings walk into a bar. The first one says, "I'll have a martini.", and the second, "I'll have a manhattan.FIJWPI@#$29u0jfmfwWGWR".

The first string blushes and says to the bartender, "Excuse my friend, he's not null terminated."

Re:Stupid Quote

[EriDay]

Are you kidding? I'm fairly certain Saddam had used these Diebold machines in his last election, in which he got 100% of the vote. [bbc.co.uk]

Re:That's absolutely right

[arkanes]

There's never been a working democracy, either, so whats your point?

Re:Distributing the Diebold memo with apt-get

[DickBreath]

The tracker is a single point of failure for those who've yet to download.

Don't think of it so much as a single point of failure. Think of it more as the convenience of a single point of tracking which subversives download things that lead to improper thinking.