Great stuff today. Why War is waging a campaign to keep some leaked memos available and Diebold is waging one to shut them down. Diebold makes the voting machines used in Florida and elsewhere.
“I have become increasingly concerned about the apparent lack of concern over the practice of writing contracts to provide products and services which do not exist and then attempting to build these items on an unreasonable timetable with no written plan, little to no time for testing, and minimal resources. It also seems to be an accepted practice to exaggerate our progress and functionality to our customers and ourselves then make excuses at delivery time when these products and services do not meet expectations.” [source]
Links: Black Box Voting, Swathmore College’s attempt to shut down students who link to why war, Copyfight.
After looking at some of the memos, it looks like Diebold is running a subsidiary that specializes in flawed software.
