Plan for voting machine probe dropped after lawsuit threat
by Diane C. Walsh/The Star-Ledger Monday March 17, 2008, 7:01 PM
Union County has backed off a plan to let a Princeton University computer scientist examine voting machines where errors occurred in the presidential primary tallies, after the manufacturer of the machines threatened to sue, officials said today.
A Sequoia executive, Edwin Smith, put Union County Clerk Joanne Rajoppi on notice that an independent analysis would violate the licensing agreement between his firm and the county. In a terse two-page letter Smith also argued the voting machine software is a Sequoia trade secret and cannot be handed over to any third party.
Tell me: why are these people allowed to do this?
2 comments:
Haha wow that is my home county...sigh, can we just call ourselves Russia yet?
The good news is, some governments are rejecting this attitude. The bad news is, not very many.
The name 'Russia' is currently in use, but I believe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is available... as is Amerika.
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