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Submitted by Abby on 24 October, 2005 - 9:28pm. Boynton's "The Tyranny of Copyright?"

When searching for related topics on Google, I came across several sights that summed up the Diebold/Swarthmore students dilemna. An article found at PC.com indicates that the documents in question told of "flaws in the touch-screen voting machines and irregularities with certifying the machines for actual elections". The students began encourging others to publish the obtained information as well. Nelson Pavlosky and Luke Smith were the two students involved with the 'mirroring' of the Diebold( http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5101623.html). An article found at http://www.swarthmore.edu/news/releases/03/diebold3.html says that the students reposted the memos from Diebold with the permission of Swarthmore college administration.

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I found some of the same

Submitted by d valdez on 25 October, 2005 - 8:58am.

I found some of the same information. It was very easy to find information regarding what was wrong with the voting system. I even learned from one site that Diebold was later sued. The judge eventually ruled against Diebold and stated that Diebold's use of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was unfair. I also found a lot of the forum posts that were origanlly made. It did not come up as easily on google but it was not difficult to find these.

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