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.election's division – a merger that would give a private company too much power over the machines used to castvotes, voting-rights groups say.
“Our office engaged in this issue because anti-competitive behavior can seriously harm consumers,'' McCollum said in a written statement. “Competitive behavior encourages the best products be available to consumers, including technology, particularly in a market as sensitive as the voting systems market.''
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Letter from voting-rights advocates here Download Floridians to AG McCollum – ES&S-Diebold – 2009-12 – FINAL1215
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