Diebold won't confirm whether the memos are genuine, but when Harris posted some of them to her website, Diebold sent a cease-and-desist letter accusing her of copyright violations under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. This prompted half a dozen other people to host the memos on sites in New Zealand, Canada, Italy and the United States, including sites that offered a searchable database of the memos. And after students at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania also received a cease-and-desist letter, an anti-Diebold campaign launched on the Internet, with dozens of people hosting the memos and dissecting their content on forums and blogs. The company's reputation declined further when news came out that it had installed uncertified software on Diebold systems in 17 California counties before last year's gubernatorial recall, a violation of the state's election law. A former Diebold employee accused the company of doing the same in Georgia, though Diebold has denied the latter charge.