- All Black Box Voting files confiscated, including personal
info on activists by Diebold.
-
- Here's what you can do to help: Get the word out far
and wide that Diebold has done this thing.
-
- 1. Diebold issued a pull-down demand under DMCA for the
BlackBoxVoting.org web site, citing a link posted on a forum in the site,
claiming that the link allowed web visitors to visit an unrelated page
which contained items they say they own the copyright to.
-
- 2. Not only was BlackBoxVoting.org pulled down, but ALL
of the documents, databases and programming for approximately 500 pages
of material, most of which did not relate to Diebold at all, was confiscated.
Dozens of web pages were pulled down which had nothing whatever to do with
the disputed information. AIT Inc. has indicated that it believes it has
the right to pull down the entire web site including unrelated pages. It
then confiscated all of the material.
-
- 3. The confiscated pages included personal contact information
for 200 activists, and the private strategy sessions for voting machine
activists. BlackBoxVoting.org has yet to receive any explanation at all
as to what authority was claimed to confiscate them. We demand their immediate
return.
-
- 4. Most of the memos in question were written in Canada,
and resided on a server in Canada up to and including 2003 after Diebold
bought a Canadian company called Global Election Systems. In Canada, company
correspondence, even internal memos, is not protected by copyright. To
date we have been unable to find evidence, other than a claim in a letter,
that Diebold even owns the copyright to these memos.
-
- 5. These memos are more properly termed "Evidence,"
because they contain evidence of a pattern of lawbreaking that dates back
at least to 1999.
-
- 6. Lexis-Nexis would be a worthwhile exercise now for
every one of these search terms pertaining to the origins of Global Election
Systems: This firm was a wholly owned subsidiary of North American Professional
Technologies, Inc., which was in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of MacroTrends
Ventures International, Ltd. Charles Hong Lee is one of the principals
with these firms; He has been tied in the press to participation in a scheme
to bilk immigrants out of some $47 million; he is also connected with a
scandal in which a Mr. Graye was prosecuted, relating to Vinex Wines. Charles
Hong Lee was also involved with something called "The Vancouver Maneuver,"
a stock pump & dump scheme that bilked investors out of millions in
connection with an entertainment company and something called Beverly Development.
Charles Hong Lee was a principal with Global Election Systems, along with
the late Clinton Rickards. Talbot Iredale, currently the V.P. for Research
and Development for Diebold Election Systems, began with the company in
1991, right around the time the Vancouver Maneuver was exposed in Barron's
magazine. This is the pedigree from whence the Diebold Memos arose.
- _________
-
- Here is a contribution originally from Slashdot, made
available for the Black Box Voting book by Donald Way. (Diebold: This is
satire and meant for entertainment purposes only. If you would like to
spend several more $500 per hour lawyer fees suing us over satire, go right
ahead.)
-
- CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
-
- Pending: your vote is now the property of Diebold, Inc.
Any attempt on your part to ascertain the disposition of your vote is hereby
declared to be in violation of federal law, e.g., the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act.
-
- You have the right not to vote. Any vote you make can
be used against you in a court of law. The judge presiding in such a court
of law may be appointed by Diebold, Inc., and need not require a jury,
but if a jury is summoned, it need not be a jury of your peers.
-
- By acting to vote you consent to our determining whether
your vote is valid, and in the event it is judged not to be valid, you
consent to our voiding your vote and further voiding your right to vote
in the future. You furthermore acknowledge that owing to storage and bandwidth
limitations that Diebold, Inc., may experience, your vote may be digitally
compressed in a way such that your true intent in casting the vote may
be lost. If such an eventuality should occur, your vote may be determined
using statistical data derived from any source we deem appropriate or convenient.
-
- You have the right to protest if your vote is cancelled,
altered, or in any way modified as the result of such action on our part,
however, you hereby acknowledge that in such an eventuality, Diebold, Inc.
may determine that your right to vote is deleterious to democracy as implement
by Diebold, Inc., and therefore may be considered to be an overt act against
the national security of these United States. You have 10 seconds to comply.
-
- God Bless America
|
