Those rascally Diebold folks are at it again. This time, they want to punish a client who had the temerity to demand printed ballot receipts. I guess there's no reason that a company that makes ATM machines would know how to do that. But they sure know how to rip of their customers and voters! Check out this email and a quote from an article about it:
From: owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of Sue Page
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 7:20 AM
To: Support
Subject: FW: sunspot.net - maryland news.htm
It looks like the University of Maryland is funded, and is not going away.
See attached article.
From: owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com]On Behalf Of Ken
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 12:47 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: sunspot.net - maryland news.htm
There is an important point that seems to be missed by all these articles: they already bought the system. At this point they are just closing the barn door. Let’s just hope that as a company we are smart enough to charge out the yin if they try to change the rules now and legislate voter receipts.
Ken
From: owner-support@dieboldes.com [mailto:owner-support@dieboldes.com] On Behalf Of Greg Forsythe
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:49 PM
To: support@dieboldes.com
Subject: RE: sunspot.net - maryland news.htm
What does "charge out the yin" mean? Or, was that supposed to be "yen". Hate being left behind.
Greg
To:
Subject: RE: sunspot.net - maryland news.htm
From: "Ken"
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 14:13:58 -0800
Importance: Normal
In-reply-to:
Short for ‘out the yin-yang’. Perhaps a little too colloquial; apologies for that. In my defense, google turns up 694 references to the phrase.
Any after-sale changes should be prohibitively expensive. Much more expensive than, for example, a university research grant.
Ken
A response...
"I find it appalling," said Del. Karen S. Montgomery (D-Dist. 14) of Brookeville, who plans to file a bill mandating a voter-verified paper trail.
"I'd really like to have [yin-yang] explained to me anatomically, with the assumption that almost any place it would be would be painful," she said.
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