There are new developments in the electronic voting front.  The Diebold
Corporation withdrew its threats of big lawsuits against those who posted
any of more than 13,000 electronic mail messages pertaining to electronic
voting.  Additionally, Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio posted choice
documents from the 13,000 Diebold e-mail stash on his Congressional
website, saying Diebold's actions were an abuse of the Digital Millennium
copyright Act.  An article is below.  If you want to check out the full
text of Diebold's legal filing stating it is dropping its campaign and
Congressman Kucinich's statement check out:

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/11/27/050218.shtml?tid=123&tid=126&tid=172
&tid=93&tid=99

Kelly


p2pnet.net, Canada
    Wednesday 26 November 2003

    Diebold withdraws threats

    Electronic voting machine maker Diebold Systems says it's
withdrawing more than a dozen legal threats against ISPs for hosting
users who publish or link to corporate documents suggesting there are
flaws in its equipment and irregularities. with certifying the systems
for elections.

    Nor will it issue additional cease-and-desist notices concerning
these corporate documents, US District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel heard
today.

    Fogel has now scheduled a telephone conference between Diebold and
some of the people who raised the issue.

    ISP Online Policy Group (OPG) and two Swarthmore College students
wanted a court order to stop Diebold from issuing "specious legal
threats," as the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) described them.

    The EFF and Center for Internet and Society Cyberlaw Clinic at
Stanford Law School are representing OPG and Swarthmore students Nelson
Pavlosky and Luke Smith.



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