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Dec 16 14:53 UTC 2003

More stuff from the memos obtained from Diebold is coming out...firstly,
an email suggesting they should gouge Maryland if the state asks to have
printers added to their voting machines:

"There is an important point that seems to be missed by all these
articles: they already bought the system. At this point they are just
closing the barn door. Let's just hope that as a company we are smart
enough to charge out the yin if they try to change the rules now and
legislate voter receipts."
(http://www.gazette.net/200350/montgomerycty/state/191617-1.html)


Another email, this one from Sue Page, one of Maryland's project
managers, criticizes State Board of Elections Administrator Linda H.
Lamone, and suggests, "There's not much that we can do, other than hope
that a new Republican Governor will effect change."  This hints more
subtly at the same kind of partisan bias that Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell
exhibited when he said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its
electoral votes to the President next year."
(http://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/news/stories/20030827/localnews/14087
1.htm
l)


In my more pessimistic moments, I wonder if we'll ever have a fair
election in this country again.  Maybe "the fix is in" already for 2004.