Via Slashdot, voting machine manufacturer Diebold is suing Massachusetts for picking a competitor’s product over their own.
Diebold Election Systems Inc., one of the country’s largest manufacturers of voting machines, is scheduled to argue in court today that the Office of the Secretary of State wrongly picked another company to supply thousands of voting machines for the disabled.
Diebold says it will ask a judge to overturn the selection of AutoMARK, a Diebold business competitor, because the office of Secretary of State William F. Galvin failed to choose the best machine.
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[A lawyer representing Diebold] said Diehold was so stunned it did not get the contract that it now believes “it’s worth the time and money” of going to court to challenge the contract’s award, even though the company at this stage has no hard evidence of unfair treatment.
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“We want a judge to either order the contract awarded to Diebold, based on his review of the proposals, but if he does not want to go that far, to at least order a reopening of the competition,” he said.
Weisberg said the company is not alleging any improprieties by the secretary of state’s office. Instead, it is saying the office acted in good faith but made a mistake in the selection.
This isn’t Diebold’s first controversy. For example, a former CEO raised campaign money for George W. Bush and sent out fundraising letters saying he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president” in 2004.
Looks like the paranoiacs were right. If Diebold thinks the wrong candidate has been chosen, it will stop at nothing to change the vote.
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