In a set back to Republicans, the Colorado state Supreme Court has ruled the GOP had illegally redrawn the stateÂ’s congressional districts in effort to favor Republican candidates.

• Diebold Drops Cases Against Internet Sites*
  In what is seen as a major victory for free speech advocates on the Internet, the electronic voting company Diebold has agreed not to sue websites that published leaked company documents that exposed security flaws in their new voting system. Diebold had threatened to sue numerous web operators including chapters of the Independent Media Centers for posting the internal documents. [Archived Democracy Now! coverage]