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  • Antitrust and Your Vote

    The New York Times Mar 10 2010

    When the nation’s largest voting machine manufacturer, Election Systems and Software, acquired the voting machine business of Diebold, the nation’s second-largest manufacturer, it set off alarms for anyone who cares about election integrity. The combination meant that 70 percent of the nation’s voting machines would be provided by just one company.

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  • Feds Move to Break Voting-Machine Monopoly

    Kim Zetter Wired Mar 8 2010

    Citing anti-competitive concerns, the Justice Department sued Election Systems & Software in order to force the company to divest itself of the voting machine assets it obtained from Premier Election Solutions last year.
     

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  • Justice Department Requires Key Divestiture in Election Systems & Software/Premier Elections Solutions Merger

    Mar 8 2010

    The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Election Systems & Software (ES&S) to divest voting equipment systems assets it purchased in September 2009 from Premier Election Solutions Inc. in order to restore competition.

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  • The Voters Will Pay

    The New York Times Feb 25 2010

    It was bad news for the voting public when Election Systems and Software, the nation’s largest voting machine company, announced last fall that it was acquiring the elections division of Diebold, the nation’s second-largest voting machine company.

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  • Groups and Election Officials Warn DOJ of Security Risks, Inflated Costs from Voting Machine Vendor Merger

    Feb 17 2010

    Experts propose remedies to prevent monopoly of Voting Equipment and Election Services
    Washington, DC,– In a letter to Attorney General Holder, election administrators, computer experts and fair election advocates warned that last year’s merger of the largest and second largest voting machine manufacturers has “broad-based detrimental public impact.”  They outlined serious threats to national security and election vote accuracy. The experts cautioned the merger produces greater capacity for predatory pricing and coercive contractual terms that raise costs to taxpayers and harm other commercial vendors. The letter suggests actions the Department of Justice Antitrust Division should take to correct major market injuries and fortify election and national security.

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  • Overseas voting

    Seattle Times Feb 1 2010

    Don’t try to fix a system that isn’t broken by permitting the fax and e-mail of voted ballots.

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  • Rep. Donna Edwards Just Introduced Constl. Amendment

    David Swanson Daily Kos Feb 2 2010

    Congresswoman Donna Edwards of Maryland introduced today a constitutional amendment bill to overturn the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling allowing unlimited corporate money in elections.  Congressman John Conyers, Jr. of Michigan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, is a co-sponsor of the amendment bill.

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  • E-mail voting heads to Senate

    Jordan Schrader The News Tribune Feb 2 2010

    Legislature: Some say it assures ballot access to military overseas; others fear it’s too insecure.

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  • Internet Voting, Still in Beta

    New York Times Jan 28 2010

    Internet voting is in its infancy, and still far too unreliable, but states are starting to allow it and the trend is accelerating because of a new federal law that requires greater efforts to help military and other overseas voters cast ballots. Men and women in uniform must have a fair opportunity to vote, but allowing online voting in its current state could open elections up to vote theft and other mischief.

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  • Citizens United v. FEC: Time for a Free Speech for People Amendment?

    Jeff Clements American Constitution Society Blog Jan 21 2010

    Today in a 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the Supreme Court held that the American people are powerless to stop corporations from using corporate funds to influence state and federal elections. Overruling McConnell v. FEC, decided only six years ago and Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the Court held that the restrictions on corporate expenditures in elections contained in the federal Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act violated First Amendment protections of free speech. In effect, the majority decision (Justice Anthony Kennedy, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito) equates corporations with people for purposes of free speech and campaign expenditures.

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