Thursday, December 17, 2009

Voting-machine firm merger investigated - Florida - MiamiHerald.com

Voting-machine firm merger investigated - Florida - MiamiHerald.com:

TALLAHASSEE -- Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is conducting an anti-trust investigation of a voting-machine company merger that would create a near-monopoly over the levers of democracy in Florida and much of the United States.

McCollum's office has issued at least six subpoenas covering every major voting-machine company as part of a civil investigation of Election Systems & Software's $5 million acquisition of Diebold Inc. -- a merger that would give a private company too much power over the machines used to castvotes, voting-rights groups say.
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