Nothing has happened yet. We've let Lockyer's office know that we'll be fighting the settlement, is all - basically, the deadline Lockyer's people gave us to cave in to his office's demands is up.
If Lockyer's people make good on their threat, that means they'll argue against us having whistleblower status at all. We on the other hand are ready to argue that the deal Lockyer and co. cut with Diebold is a bad deal for the people of the state, as Diebold won't be paying for all the harm they've caused and won't be blocked from future bad acts.
This harm happens because Lockyer's office stripped from the complaint all of the worst allegations about Diebold's software that Bev and myself made (the crap is tamper-friendly), leaving in only "technical violations of law" issues (wrong version numbers installed).
So it'll be Bev, myself and our one lawyer versus the combined legal might of Lockyer *and* Diebold thrashing it out in front of an Alameda Superior Court judge soon
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Past that, I can't get into strategy. Just understand that Bev and myself have turned down a guaranteed $75,000 each in order to pick this fight
. Which wasn't easy. Dangit, I want a new freakin' bike out of all this if nothing else...$12k or so worth of BMW R1100S (Replika! so kewl!) but that "settlement" is such a pathetic slap on the wrist...no. It's on.
Lockyer & Diebold together are gonna think they've run into their own weight in rabid weasels by the time we're done
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