Ohio suing Diebold over e-voting machines.

The name may have changed, but the artist formerly known as Diebold—now Premier Election Solutions—is still catching heat over problems with its electronic voting machines. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brenner is suing the firm, seeking unspecified damages for breach of contract and fraud. The suit blames faulty software for losing votes in 11 of the 44 counties that use Premier machines.

The company was already embroiled in a legal battle with Ohio's Cuyahoga county, one it filed preemptively in May after election officials there decided to mothball $22 million worth of Premier touch-screen machines. Premier had hoped to forestall any claims against it by seeking a declaratory judgment that it had met its obligations.

This isn't the first time Ohioans have experienced buyer's remorse over the company's electronic voting systems. As Ars reported back in 2006, an exhaustive study of that year's primaries found a host of serious problems related to the voting machines, ranging from inadequate poll-worker training to equipment malfunction.

This great news for Ohioans and I certainly hope that other states with voting machine problems (like right here in Alaska for instance), follow suit.

As a country we need to take back our voting rights and not trust any company whose voting machines seem to invariably favor Republicans.

Our country is supposedly a shining example of democracy but most of us realize that this is a lie. If we work together perhaps someday soon it will be the truth.