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October 23, 2003


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College removes Diebold memos

More than 13,000 pages of internal memos filed by employees of voting machine maker Diebold Election Systems have, in the past two days, served as the center of a controversy that has the potential to be legal, political and national.

At their most eye-raising, the memos include excerpts that admit that a precinct in Florida in the 2000 presidential elections gave Al Gore minus 16,022 votes when uploaded into the county tally — more than the number of votes by which Gore lost the presidency. Ano…

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