California AG Says He'll Sue Diebold

moby11 points to this Reuters story carried by Yahooo!; it begins "California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products."

Just hope he doesn't have the case in Florida...

[jmcmunn]

Or the jury will have to count their votes ten times.

Re:Just hope he doesn't have the case in Florida..

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, hopefully before it gets there, the California administration will step in and sue this company into oblivion. With the company being "terminated", we have less of chance of a Bush/Gore fiasco raising its ugly head and saying "I'll be back".

(Couldn't think of any retarded references to Junior, Predator, etc.)

Re:Diebold needs to be bankrupted

[j1bb3rj4bb3r]

WTF... I'm still waiting to say hello to minor parties.

Twelve Angry Men

[Anonymous Coward]

And the dozen jurymen vote: 2 for the plaintiff, 13 for the defendant, 1 for Buchanan.

Re:Price on Democracy

[DAldredge]

Corps can not commit treason, only people who do not donate lots of money to the whores on both sides of the isle in DC can be traitors.

Good Plan

[bahwi]

1) Accept, without proper testing, Electronic Voting Machines. Pay ridiculous amount.
2) Find out machines suck
3) SUE for Much More than the original cost
4) PROFIT!!

Guess...

[michael_cain]

the California state government didn't get the memo: How do you tell when a vendor is lying? Their lips move.

In related news...

[starrsoft]

Diebold CEO, Bob Urosevich, announced, "Like our motto [diebold.com] says, 'We won't rest!' We will fight this lawsuit until we win! For us, it is do or die bold!"

Re:From TFA...

[kagaku]

I thought we were calling them the gummint now?

Re:In related news...

[starrsoft]

Also, in a statement addressed directly to the California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, Diebold Vice President Thomas Swidarski said , "It isn't our fault that you didn't make sure to Lockyer voting systems!"

No, this is CALIFORNIA!

[derrith]

1) Accept, without proper testing, Electronic Voting Machines. Pay ridiculous amount.
2) Find out machines suck
3) SUE for Much More than the original cost
4)???
5)End up with an even larger deficit!

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Re:Is this the right way to go about it?

[K1-V116]

Do you really want to think how many people would be killed if we a madman in the Whitehouse?

I know some might answer that question "Over a thousand and still counting...." ;) *innocent whistle*

Re:Just hope he doesn't have the case in Florida..

[Guppy06]

We, the jury, find the defendant to be Pat Buchannan.

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Election officials report California Attorney General Bill Lockyer was defeated by over 218 million votes in the latest recall election.

Re:Is this the right way to go about it?

[Beryllium Sphere(tm)]

>Glad at least some of the state governments are getting their heads out of their ass.

Having some software knowledge among decision makers helps. For example, my state legislator used to work at Microsoft. He was the program manager for Access. His reaction to the idea of using Access to count votes is, umm, direct and to the point.

Diewhining

[bushwahd]

Damn trial lawyers. Protecting our right to vote! Well, they'll all be rounded up when Bullsh 'wins' again and installs Oberflecksaspittenfuhrer Zellfire Miller as the new Minister for Protection of Das State.

Re:The rest of the story: the OTHER plaintiffs

[Racter]

Mod parent up to 6, please. Hopefully that will swell the parent comment to superhuman proportions, so that it escapes /. entirely and goes flying around the 'net so fast it turns time back four full years.