: Dr. C. Scott Ananian (cananian) wrote,
2003-10-29 14:14:00

Dr. C. Scott Ananian
cananian
2003-10-29 14:14:00

Today's Diebold-related News.

Some good written responses to Swarthmore's policy regarding the Diebold documents from Derek Slater and Seth Finkelstein (who single-handedly carved an exemption to the DMCA, bravo!). [There was other good DMCA news yesterday, too.]

Steven Levy has an article on Diebold in the Nov 3 issue of Newsweek, and Tom Tomorrow has a great halloween costume suggestion. Dan Gillmor wrote about the Diebold activism in his Mercury News column today (second half of article).

Finally, I'm indebted to Jean-Marc Valin for an excellent suggestion.

Tags: diebold, elections

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