December 12, 2003
Voting-Machine Producer Retreats on Threats to Colleges and Students
A company that makes electronic-voting machines has backed down from its threats to take legal action over internal company memorandums that students at several colleges have posted on college Web servers. The students and other critics of the company say the documents reveal security weaknesses in the company's voting system.
The change is an abrupt one for the company, Diebold Inc., based in North Canton, Ohio. Diebold had said that the documents were stolen and that posting them
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