Why-war.com is tracking a collection of pilfered internal memos from Diebold concerning their election equipment. The memos include this one, dated January 17, 2001:

RE: Memory card checksum errors (was: 2000 November Election): "I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here 'looking dumb'. I would appreciate an explanation on why the memory cards start giving check sum messages. We had this happen in several precincts and one of these precincts managed to get her memory card out of election mode and then back in it, continued to read ballots, not realizing that the 300 ballots she had read earlier were no longer stored in her memory card . Needless to say when we did our hand count this was discovered. "

Apparently DieBold is trying to stop the spread of these memos, but they are in a legal catch-22: if they claim DMCA violations, then they acknowledge the documents as authentic. They haven't yet suggested that the documents are libelous, which would be the case if they were false. Some have alleged a relationship between the Diebold machines and the California elections results. See here. The Associated Press added the following:

Diebold refused to discuss the documents' contents. Company spokesman Mike Jacobsen said the fact that the company sent the cease-and-desist letters does not mean the documents are authentic — or give credence to advocates who claim lax Diebold security could allow hackers to rig machines. "We're cautioning anyone from drawing wrong or incomplete conclusions about any of those documents or files purporting to be authentic," Jacobsen said. But the activists say the mere fact that Diebold was hacked shows that the company's technology cannot be trusted.