Timeline of news articles on this page, working from most recent, ascending to oldest -- ~ This illustrates the fact that it is sadly not enough to get a good law passed; you have to be vigilant and sometimes aggressive to make sure that it is enforced. ~ December 08, 2005 North Carolina Sued for Illegally Certifying Voting Equipment               EFF Asks Court to Void Approval of Diebold and Others Without Source Code Review. "This is about the rule of law," said EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman.   "The Board of Elections has simply ignored its mandatory obligations under North Carolina election law. This statute was enacted to require election officials to investigate the quality and security of voting systems before approval, and only approve those that are safe and secure. By certifying without a full review of all relevant code, the Board of Elections has now opened the door for North Carolina counties to purchase untested and potentially insecure voting equipment."         http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_12.php#004237 Sunday Toon of the Moment... North Carolina in Bed With Diebold... http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002113.htm December 02, 2005 North Carolina Illegally Certifies Diebold E-voting System   - Board of Elections Ignores Rules to Escrow Code, Identify Programmers                 Raleigh, North Carolina - The North Carolina Board of Elections certified Diebold Election Systems to sell electronic voting equipment in the state yesterday, despite Diebold's repeated admission that it could not comply with North Carolina's tough election law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) believes that this raises important questions about the Board of Elections' procedures as well as the integrity of Diebold's bid for certification.               http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_12.php#004227  November 28, 2005 EFF Convinces North Carolina Judge To Throw Out Diebold E-Voting Case -  E-Voting Company Forced to Comply with Election Transparency Laws Raleigh, North Carolina - Responding to arguments made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a North Carolina judge today told Diebold Election Systems that the e-voting company must comply with tough North Carolina election law and dismissed the company's case seeking broad exemptions from the law. http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2005_11.php#004203   For the brief filed in the case:   http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/20051117_Diebold_v_NC_Motion.p November 28, 2005 AP RALEIGH, N.C. - One of the nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined Monday to protect it from criminal prosecution should it fail to disclose software code as required by state law. http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/13277828.htm Diebold Attempts to Evade Election Transparency Laws Kansas City infoZine, MO - Nov 19, 2005 In a last-minute filing, e-voting equipment maker Diebold asked a North Carolina court to exempt it from tough new election requirements designed to ensure ... http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/11514/   Voting machine company sued - Group says judge's ruling defeats law Raleigh News&Observer - Nov 19, 2005   Voting machine companies should have to abide by a new law requiring they turn over information on how their systems work, a Winston-Salem woman says... http://www.newsobserver.com/682/story/368895.html   Action on voting-machine contract causes some concern Greensboro News Record, NC - Nov 14, 2005 ... who track problems related to voting machines say they are worried that if Diebold gets what it wants, the court will weaken North Carolina's ability to ... http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051114/NEWSREC0101/511140308/1001/NEWSREC0201  Voting group leery of state contractor, pending lawsuit Greensboro News Record, NC - Nov 13, 2005 ... between 1983 and 1992 he worked for Sequoia Pacific Voting Systems. Both Diebold and Sequoia are bidding to work in North Carolina. ...   http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWSREC0101/511130328  Week-end update by Mark Binker Greensboro News Record NC Nov 12, 2005 The question now is what rules will govern those machines and who will be enforcing those rules. Those are the broader topics Sunday's and Monday's stories get at. http://blog.news-record.com/staff/capblog/archives/2005/11/weekend_update_4.html Voting booths in flux Jacksonville Daily News, NC - Nov 11, 2005 ... Five companies, including Diebold, have submitted proposals. ... before a decision is made on what companies will be authorized to sell machines in North Carolina. ...  http://www.jdnews.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=36534&Section=News   Diebold ducks deadline News&Observer - Nov 9, 2005 In their filing with the court, Diebold lawyers said the company could not comply with a section of a new state law that requires companies to identify programmers responsible for creating voting software or provide some other detailed information about their systems.  Companies that don't provide the information could be fined or held criminally liable. http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/363005.html    11/07/05 Diebold turns their bid in, three days after all other bids opened. 11/04/05 Diebold obtains temporary re-straining order on Friday, Nov 4 at 1:45 PM, giving them until Monday, Nov 7 at 12:30 PM to turn in their bid. 11/04/05 bids for voting machines (except Diebold's)opened by IT dept Friday,Nov 4,at 2:00 PM 11/04/05 sealed bids on RFP for voting machines due Friday, Nov 4, at 2:00 PM.   The State Board of Elections hired Keith Long, former Diebold employee (2002-2005) to oversee the voting machine selection process, this is the same man who installed 22,000 Diebold in Georgia in '02. http://blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/2-More-on-Our-Man-from-Diebolds-tenure-in-Georgia.html   Former democratic state senator Steve Metcalf serving as a lobbyist for Diebold -   Lobbyist Information... Name: Steve Metcalf  Firm: The Policy Group, Inc. Address: PO Box 1694 Asheville, NC 28802 Phone: (828) 258-6688 http://www.secretary.state.nc.us/lobbyists/Lobbyist.aspx?PId=5080 Background on Diebold's implementation in other unlucky states: Dueling quotes of Secretaries of State who publicly boasted of the implementation of Diebold in their states, and later their long punch lists, so bad that Georgia threatened to withhold payment for the equipment.... http://blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/31-Dueling-quotes.html