Our View: If Diebold doesn’t like state voting-machine rules, well, too bad.
Thursday, December 29th, 2005
By Chris Fitzsimon
It may be a harmless coincidence, although it bears a strong resemblance to a power play. Whatever the case, the best course for the State Board of Elections is to bid Diebold Election Systems good day and get on with its work.
Diebold said it couldn’t do this. Diebold said it couldn’t do that. Unlike the sole surviving bidder (and several smaller contenders who would like to sign on if their eligibility hasn’t lapsed), Diebold said the board’s vendor protections weren’t adequate to protect it against lawsuits by software providers such as Microsoft Corp. And Diebold was unsatisfied by a judge’s assurance that the state had not erred in approving a slate of vendors that included Diebold.
No, nothing less than a softening of the state’s disclosure requirements would suffice. So last week, Diebold withdrew, declaring that it could not meet North Carolina’s disclosure requirements without putting itself at risk. (more…)
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