After getting hammered publicly for having e-voting machines that didn’t work well and had serious security problems, Diebold tried sell off its e-voting division for years with no luck. It then tried to change its name to Premier, hoping people wouldn’t realize it was Diebold. In the end, Diebold finally found a buyer in ES&S, the other large player in the market. Between them they own 70% of the US market, apparently. And that’s leading to some concern. The Justice Department is apparently looking into the deal to see if it should be unwound, out of fear that ES&S will jack up prices.
Honestly, I don’t see what the value is in unwinding the deal. Then you’ll have two awful e-voting companies with terrible track records with security and accuracy, rather than one. Instead, why aren’t we focusing on requiring truly open solutions so that we actually verify that an e-voting system is both secure and accurate?
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