DOJ TO REQUIRE ES&S TO SELL OFF ASSETS FROM DIEBOLD MERGER CITING ANTI-TRUST CONCERNS
The Department of Justice's Anti-trust division has determined that the purchase of Premier Election Solutions, Diebold Inc.'s recently renamed e-voting division, by Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) has resulted in a voting machine monopoly. The DoJ and nine states who have joined in a lawsuit, are suing to require ES&S to divest of the assets gained in the bargain-basement priced purchase of Diebold's e-voting outfit last September.
The merger with their second largest competitor Diebold/Premier, had given ES&S, a private corporation which had already controlled some 50% of U.S. elections their electronic voting systems, a full 70% control of the votes cast in this country. The acquisition had been opposed by election integrity organizations, Hart Intercivic (a much smaller Austin-based competitor), the New York Times editorial board, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in his capacity as ch
5 minutes ago · AUSTIN – As Karl Rove makes the rounds this week with his memoir burnishing the Bush legacy, another book by another Texas Republican offers a decidedly different view.
Former state GOP chairman Tom Pauken, a Dallas lawyer and foot soldier in the Reagan revolution, offers a sober counterpoint to Rove's full-throated defense of his former boss.
In Pauken's view, the former president and "Bush's Brain" not only hijacked conservatism, they nearly destroyed it.
"Republican politics is bare
1 hour ago · MULTAN—Unidentified gunmen attacked a police station and got their three under-custody accomplices released here on Monday.
According to details, three suspected terrorists were in custody of Lapa Police Station in Multan after their arrest a few days back. On Monday, unidentified gunmen attacked the police station and secured the release of the detained accused, while three policemen including an ASI were injured in the process.
The attackers brought their three accomplices with them af
1 hour ago · 9 Mar 2010, 1944 hrs IST, PTI
WASHINGTON: The US will start accepting the applications for H-1B visas, most sought after by Indians, from April one for the fiscal 2011.
In a statement, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it will accept petitions for 65,000 H-1B visas as mandated by the Congress.
"Cases will be considered accepted on the date that it takes possession of a properly filed petition with the correct fee; not the date that the petition is postmarked," t
1 hour ago · It could take months for some food companies to figure out whether a popular flavouring ingredient contaminated with salmonella found its way into their products, industry experts say.
In the past five days, a batch of the flavour enhancer hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) that was found last month to be contaminated with salmonella has already resulted in the recall of 94 items in the U.S. and nine in Canada, with another five items added to the list late Monday.
The Canadian Food Inspec
4 hours ago · Two Ohio State employees are in the hospital and one dead after a shoot out occurred them around 3:30 a.m. by the Maintenance Building on Tuttle Park, police confirmed in a press release this morning.
The crime location is secure, with few traffic restrictions around the building. The suspect for the shooting is in custody already and OSU police are investigating the case.
No names have been released, as the family has not been notified of the shooting.
Campus will remain open today as
5 hours ago ·
State education officials are considering scrapping 13 of the state's 16 high school Regents exams - which would lower the state's graduation requirements for millions of students.
The move - along with other cuts to the state's standardized tests - could save $13.7 million in the midst of the state's fiscal crisis and are on the agenda at Monday's monthly meeting of the state Regents, who oversee state education policy.
The controversial proposals include scrapping translations of the e
5 hours ago · Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil released (Charisa) Coulter on Friday. She walked out of judicial police headquarters in Port-au-Prince and headed to the nearby airport for a flight to Miami.
Coulter is staying in a hotel by herself, her father said. He did not know when she might return home to Boise, Idaho.
He said his daughter had been through a "trying experience" and was welcoming the solitude.
Coulter, Silsby and eight other Americans had been detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidn
6 hours ago · STOCK MARKET WATCH, Tuesday March 9, 2010
Bush Administration Officials Convicted = 2
Name(s): David Safavian, James Fondren
Bush Administration Officials Charged = 1
Name(s): Richard Lopez Razo
Financial Sector Officials Convicted since 1/20/09 = 11
Dow... 10,552.52 -13.68 (-0.13%)
Nasdaq... 2,332.21 +5.86 (+0.25%)
S&P 500... 1,138.50 -0.20 (-0.02%)
Gold future... 1,125 -10.70 (-0.94%)
10-Yr Bond... 3.71 +0.04 (+0.95%)
30-Year Bond 4.68 +0.04 (+0.88%)
6 hours ago · By Seema Mehta
March 8, 2010 | 11:05 p.m.
Terrorism and the Middle East are continuing to roil the Republican Senate contest after a letter written by former congressman Tom Campbell emerged that appeared to contradict statements Campbell and his aides had made about his dealings with a radical Muslim professor.
The professor, Sami Al-Arian, contributed to Campbell's unsuccessful campaign in 2000 for the U.S. Senate. On Sept. 26, 2001, when he was teaching at the University of South Flori
7 hours ago · Report condemns Honduras violence
By Arthur Brice, CNN
March 9, 2010 -- Updated 0120 GMT (0920 HKT)
(CNN) -- An Organization of American States commission condemned Monday the slayings last month of three Honduran political activists opposed to a military-led coup that removed the elected president in June.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights also said it deplores the kidnappings, arbitrary detentions, torture, sexual violations and illegal raids that the panel maintains other
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