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===Leaked memos===
In September 2003, a large number of internal Diebold memos, dating back to 1999, were posted to the BlackBoxVoting.org web site, resulting in the site being shut down due to a Diebold cease and desist order. Later, other website organizations Why War? and the [[Free Culture Swarthmore|Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons]], a group of student activists at [[Swarthmore College]] posted the memos. [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] [[Dennis Kucinich]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] from Ohio, placed portions of the files on his websites.<ref>"[http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0423-11.htm Kucinich Calls for Suspension of Electronic Voting] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205102/http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0423-11.htm |date=March 3, 2016 }}," ''[[Common Dreams]]'', April 23, 2004.</ref>

Diebold attempted to stop the publication of these internal memos by sending [[Cease and desist|cease-and-desist letters]] to each site hosting these documents, demanding that they be removed. Diebold claimed the memos as their copyrighted material, and asserted that anyone who published the memos online was in violation of the [[Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act]] provisions of the [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act]] found in §512 of the [[United States Copyright Act]].

When it turned out that some of the challenged groups would not back down, Diebold retracted their threat. Those who had been threatened by Diebold then sued for court costs and damages, in ''[[OPG v. Diebold]]''. This suit eventually led to a victory for the plaintiffs against Diebold, when in October 2004 Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that Diebold abused its copyrights in its efforts to suppress the embarrassing memos.