Judge denies Diebold request to block ES&S pact with Massachusetts

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Computerworld

Vendor contends state erred in selecting AutoMark voting machines of rival
Marc L. Songin

March 27, 2007 -- A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday denied a request from Diebold Election Systems Inc. to block a bid by Massachusetts to buy electronic voting machines from Election Systems & Software Inc.

Diebold had filed a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on March 15 looking to invalidate its $9 million contract to buy handicapped accessible AutoMark voting machines made by rival ES&S.

At a court hearing on the lawsuit yesterday, Diebold's request for an injunction to block the execution of the contract with ES&S was rejected, a spokesman for Galvin said today. The judge also denied Diebold's request to have an accelerated discovery process, and to keep the state's legal team from viewing internal Diebold documents, he said.

"The suit is still there, but they went zero for three yesterday," the spokesman said. No further hearings have yet been scheduled, he said.

Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin decided earlier this month to buy the ES&S AutoMark voting machines for deployment 1,700 polling places in the state. The AutoMark uses headphones and enlarged ballot screens to ease the process of voting for blind and visually impaired people.

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1. Diebold has gall

Diebold is so evil - they are marketing their POS machines with the Automark,
but they are suing a state for buying it from someone else.

Diebold cannot be trusted, they wouldn't sign on the bottom line here in NC, and
can't sell any machines here.

And they manufacture the touch-screens about 30 minutes from my house.
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