E-Voting Suit Settled

Diebold, Inc. -- the country's leading maker of electronic voting machines -- will pay $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by parties in California who claimed its machines were error-prone. Diebold has been at the center of controversies in e-voting after a number of security holes in its machines were reported and then leaked on the web in the company's private email archives. According to a report in the Sacramento Bee, the money will be divided among the state of California, Alameda County, and the University of California, which will launch research about how to train election monitors about electronic voting. The company's voting equipment has been blamed for a number of voting irregularities in several states (see this article, for example).

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