After EFF Litigation, Diebold Pulls Out of North Carolina

January 5, 2006 D. H. McKee

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After a series of lawsuits led by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to defend North Carolina’s election integrity laws, controversial electronic voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems finally withdrew from the state’s voting machine procurement process on Thursday.
In November, Diebold filed suit against the North Carolina Board of Elections to try to avoid a state requirement that vendors place into escrow all source code “that is relevant to functionality, setup, configuration, and operation of the voting system.” Under a strong new state law, this code is to be available to the Board of Elections and the chairs of the state political parties for review so that they could look for security vulnerabilities. EFF intervened in the case on behalf of local voter integrity advocate Joyce McCloy and succeeded in convincing the judge to dismiss the case and require Diebold to comply.
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