Friday, October 24, 2003

Students Fight E-Vote Firm (Wired)
Some Swarthmore College students fighting hard to keep the Diebold memos available. By doing so, they put themselves at great risk fighting the DMCA: "They're using copyright law as a means of suppressing information that needs to be public," Smith said. ... "It's not like people are reading these memos in order to steal Diebold's election system. (The company is) trying to use this law, and specifically the mandatory take-down section, to conceal flaws that directly affect the validity of election results. This is a threat to our democracy."

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