Diebold kicked out of Maryland

At least by the House of Delegates...

Diebold, the electronic voting machine maker, suffered another sharp setback recently, when Maryland's House of Delegates voted 137-to-0 to drop its machines and switch to paper ballots. The vote came in the same week that Texas held elections marred by electronic voting troubles. Maryland's State Senate should join the House in voting to discontinue the use of the Diebold machines, and other states should follow Maryland's lead.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/23/opinion/23thu3.html

The likelyhood that this vote could begin be the example of a sweeping sea-change knocking Diebold out of other states is almost too much to hope for. I strongly suspect that in many states with Republican Secretary of States - like California and Ohio - it won't be easy at all.

Vyan