Whistleblower Hero is Threatened with Prison for Exposing Diebold

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Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:47:09 -0600

HP: Whistleblower Hero is Threatened with Prison for Exposing

Diebold

 

 

Whistleblower Hero is Threatened with Prison for Exposing Diebold

By Lyn Davis Lear, in Huffington Post

 

 

Okay, let me get this straight. Stephen Heller, an actor in Los

Angeles, was supplementing his income as a temp at a big law firm,

Jones Day, two years ago and discovered one of the firm's clients,

Diebold, was potentially going to disenfranchise thousands of voters

in the next election (what else is new?).

 

So like the good citizen we would all hope to be, Heller provided the

Attorney General and Secretary of State with documents that led to the

decertification of Diebold touch-screens in California.

 

In the materials Heller leaked, Jones Day advised Diebold that the

company could be subject to criminal prosecution for using

uncertified, customized software in the Diebold voting system. Diebold

refused to change the software and Jones Day assisted in the cover up.

Once this was discovered, via Heller, Secretary of state, Kevin

Shelley recommended that Diebold be decertified and prosecuted for

fraud. Even though Diebold was decertified they were never prosecuted.

Instead it is the patriot, Stephen Heller, who has been charged with

three felonies and is being aggressively punished for his courage. Of

course, embarrassed as hell, Jones Day, and the big bully, Diebold,

waited two years after the election to bring their wrath down on upon

this one lone decent man.

 

One question to ask is whether it is a crime to attempt to stop a

crime? In this case, Stephen Heller deserves a medal of gratitude

instead of jail. We can not keep letting these bullies diminish our

democracy. Read this post by Peter Soby Jr. for more in-depth details

and how we can help Stephen Heller.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-soby-jr/whistleblower-charged-wit_b_16411.ht\

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Source: Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lyn-lear/whistleblower-hero-is-thr_b_16409.html

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American citizens are so accustomed to taking their freedoms for granted and

having them handed to them effortlessly, that it doesn't occur to most of us

that what we take to be our rights and freedoms are " won, " in battles fought

against the constant presence of tyrants and dictators. If paralysis, dejection

and hopelessness is written all over our faces, don't expect these tyrants to

hesitate, when, in fact, they continue to move boldly even when we fight them

with anything less than dogged determination.

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califpacific

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 7:02 AM

Whistleblower Hero is Threatened with

Prison for Exposing Diebold

 

 

A

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:47:09 -0600

HP: Whistleblower Hero is Threatened with Prison for Exposing

Diebold