June 25, 2004 - The eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed a motion for a preliminary injunction today to preserve the integrity of the November 2004 elections and restore public trust and confidence in the system by which Maryland voters will help elect the next President of the United States. The Maryland State Board of Elections and its Administrator, Linda H. Lamone, recklessly purchased and certified the Diebold AccuVote TS electronic voting system deployed in Maryland over the objections of its own Procurement Review Committee, and then failed to either fix or decertify the machines as required by state and federal law once numerous independent expert reports commissioned by the state of Maryland - as well as reports of widespread problems in actual elections in Maryland and nationwide - confirmed that the machines could not preserve the security and reliability of the upcoming November 2004 election.

Get the full text of the Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PDF) and the Memorandum of Law (PDF) in support of it.

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