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"* North Carolina Sued for Illegally Certifying Voting
Equipment

EFF Asks Court to Void Approval of Diebold and Others
Without Source Code Review

Raleigh, North Carolina - The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) on Thursday filed a complaint against the
North Carolina Board of Elections and the North Carolina
Office of Information Technology Services on behalf of
voting integrity advocate Joyce McCloy, asking that the
Superior Court void the recent illegal certification of
three electronic voting systems.

North Carolina law requires the Board of Elections to
rigorously review all voting system code "prior to
certification." Ignoring this requirement, the Board of
Elections on December 1st certified voting systems offered
by Diebold Election Systems, Sequoia Voting Systems, and
Election Systems and Software without having first obtained
let alone reviewed the system code.

"This is about the rule of law," said EFF Staff Attorney
Matt Zimmerman. "The Board of Elections has simply ignored
its mandatory obligations under North Carolina election
law. This statute was enacted to require election
officials to investigate the quality and security of voting
systems before approval and only approve those that are
safe and secure. By certifying without a full review of
all relevant code, the Board of Elections has now opened
the door for North Carolina counties to purchase untested
and potentially insecure voting equipment."..."

past. Here's a place to put our collective money where our mouths are.

We are on an extremely limited budget, but I felt that without our electronic freedoms, the Kleptocracy will be all powerful. How else can we hear about the happenings in the Gulf Coast, the ME, etc.?

EFF does a lot of good work on digital rights of many kinds.