Article: Here's do-it-yourself letter & cautionary note re: Diebold/ES&S senate antitrust hearing

To help you prepare for your review of this acquisition, above is a link to sourced documentation related to this monopoly: It contains specific data including citations and links to original sources, pertaining to: (a) the companies (b) horizontal and vertical monopoly criteria and how these apply to the ES&S acquisition; (c) elections industry regulatory environment and history; (d) past history of anticompetitive behavior; (e) past history of the effect of lack of competition; and (f) ownership research for ES&S.

Thank you for your energetic investigation into these matters.

Bev Harris - Director
Black Box Voting - 330 SW 43rd St Suite K, PMB 547 - Renton, WA, 98057

(1) Secretaries of State and Boards of Elections, compiled and tabulated into spreadsheet form by Black Box Voting;; Sourced US Voting Systems by jurisdiction; links to documents from states contained in spreadsheet.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/Sourced-US-Voting-Systems-by-jurisdiction-2009.xls

(2) On Dec. 16, 2008, the Federal Trade Commission filed a federal court challenge to Ovation Pharmaceuticals' January 2006 acquisition of the drug NeoProfen. In Dec. 2008, a lawsuit challenged Microsemi's July 2008 acquisition of Semicoa.

(3) U.S. antitrust enforcers can challenge mergers even after closing, and even for deals not subject to premerger notification: http://www.jonesday.com/pubs/pubs_detail.aspx?pubID=S5712

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