Voting Vagaries

There's something weird going on in the implementation of touchscreen technology for voting machines: the company Diebold is making tons of voting machines being used nationwide, and has even been counting the votes in some circumstances. All nausea about chads aside, I think there is a strong issue with the proprietary nature of electronic voting information, that makes it very risky as there is no hard copy tracking actual votes. I believe we also have a strong interest in requiring any company making machines or any entity counting votes to be extraordinarily secure, efficient, and non-partisan.Diebold, the company which makes the voting machines, issued a cease and desist order against the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a bunch of other sites that posted or linked to memos from the companies regarding mismanagement and loopholes in the system.
Swarthmore is staging a civil disobedience campaign in response to the c&d order, claiming it to be a misuse of intellectual property law to hide information that is extremely important to the public and for the functioning of the democratic process.
As a side-note, I have been unable to access the Diebold memos, but there are excerpts from the Diebold docs on the Why-War? website, although necessarily out of context.
Look here for a good summary of the situation and some of the contents of the memos.