Diebold whistleblower needs our help

[kpete]

(1st post for me - is this the right place? Kpete)

Diebold whistleblower needs our help
Voting & Debates
Wednesday, 15 March 2006

You might notice in the upper left a new cause du jour around here, Stephen Heller, courtesy an email alert from an old friend who knows him. Short version:

Temp worker, regular guy with a wife and a dog and a mortgage and all, stumbles across legal documents indicating that Diebold looks way fishy re California elections. Like their-own-attorneys-thought-it-was-criminal fishy. (Incidentally, since Democrats simply cannot be elected nationally without California, this is a national issue. Big time.)

So guy blows the whistle, sends the papers to the California secretary of state, calls the newspapers, tries to protect the most fundamental aspect of our democracy. Like that.

Our friend seems to have pissed off the big boys royally. Now he's facing three felony charges.

Read up, do your own thinking, and see if you agree: check out the LA Times, LA Weekly, Tribune Media Services, and the Oakland Tribune. Also, with a little more attitude, Kos and the Huffington Post.

Bottom line: I'm no expert, but it seems pretty clear. Dude deserves a medal, not jail.

As it is, the guy's family is being financially wiped out. And that's even if he doesn't do time.
more at:
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/870/1/

[freedomfries]

1. thanks for posting kpete!

the link to the Defense Fund.
http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com/

[Time for change]

2. Yes indeed

He certainly does deserve a medal.

Unfortunately, our government is stripping away protection for whistle blowers, just like it's stripping away all sorts of other protections.