The city of San Francisco filed their lawsuit against ES&S today. The city charges the vendor with a panoply of misdeeds including fraud, breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation and multiple violations of California's Elections Code, False Claims Act and Unfair Competition Law. In a press release concerning this lawsuit the City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, had this to say, "San Francisco's experience with ES&S raises extremely troubling questions, not simply about the integrity of this company's technology, but about the integrity of this company itself," said Herrera. "There can be no more important duty in a representative democracy than to conduct elections, and it is a travesty to see that duty so flagrantly undermined by the fraudulent conduct of an election systems vendor. This is an injustice that cries out for a strong response, and I intend to aggressively litigate the City's interests under our contract and under the law." This lawsuit is on top of the suit filed yesterday by the state against ES&S for nearly $15M.

 

Diebold’s memory card failures have happened in Connecticut as well as in Florida. How many more states will have the same problems?

 

NAtional: Provisional Ballot Problems Widely Reported in 2006, New Report Finds; Administrative Errors, Poor Training, Voter Roll Problems Urged to Be Fixed Before Election 2008

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20071120.104626&time=11%2042%20PST&year=2007&public=0

 

CA: Bowen seeks nearly $15 million from voting machine company

http://www.beatricedailysun.com/articles/2007/11/19/ap-state-ne/d8t14if00.txt

 

CA: E-Vote: Secretary of State Sues Company Over Sale of Unauthorized Voting Equipment to California Counties

http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/207130

 

CA: Bowen Sues Over Voting Machines

http://www.kqed.org/weblog/capitalnotes/2007/11/bowen-sues-over-voting-machines.jsp

 

CA: California suing Nebraska voting machine maker for $15 million

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/20/BA5QTFFQF.DTL

 

CA: State sues over voting equipment

Lawsuit alleges 972 uncertified machines were sold for use in five counties

http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_7513904

 

CA: Suit claims voting units illegally sold

http://www.thereporter.com/news/ci_7514842

 

CA: California sues voting machine maker

http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=7044

 

CA: Calif. secretary of state sues e-voting vendor over hardware changes

The state believes design mods mean devices must be recertified

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=government&articleId=9048178&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_top

 

CA: Voting machine maker sued by Secretary of State

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_7514245

 

CA: Los Angeles County - County wants state OK for vote-count system

http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_7511014

 

CA: "Extremely troubling questions"

Herrera sues voting systems company

http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/pr_herrera_ess_071120.shtml

 

CA: San Francisco sues voting machine vendor

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/11/20/state/n121424S16.DTL&type=politics

 

CA: San Francisco - S.F. sues voting-machine vendor

http://www.examiner.com/a-1059859~S_F__sues_voting_machine_vendor.html

 

CT: Diebold Optical-Scan Failures Reported in Florida May be Affecting Connecticut As Well

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5320

 

FL: Palm Beach County - Florida's newest ballot issue

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/11/20/a16a_engelhardtcol_1120.html

 

GA: Clayton County - Transgender candidate misled voters, suit alleges

City clerk is also accused of tampering with vote machines

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/clayton/stories/2007/11/19/riverdalesuit_1120_web.html

 

MT: Flathead County - Hand Count Shows McGrew and Askew Even

Whitefish Council a Tie

http://www.flatheadbeacon.com/articles/article/whitefish_council_a_tie/1552/

 

NH: Town clerks await primary date; Delay affects ballots, budgets and poll workers

http://www.eagletribune.com/punewsnh/local_story_323115444

 

NY: Premature switch

Green against federal voting machine change

http://www.observertoday.com/articles.asp?articleID=17236

 

WA: King County - All-mail elections could face a delay

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/340362_voting20.html

 

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