{"id":93670,"date":"2009-12-22T06:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091221\/1423227448.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-22T06:42:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T11:42:46","slug":"justice-department-may-unwind-diebold-e-voting-sale-to-ess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/93670","title":{"rendered":"Justice Department May Unwind Diebold E-voting Sale To ES&S"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. 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<\/a> 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<\/a>, out of fear that ES&S will jack up prices.<\/p>\n

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<\/i> solutions so that we actually verify that an e-voting system is both secure and accurate?<\/p>\n

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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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}