I have been raging about our lives in Post Democracy America for a while.
The voting machines of ESS and formerly Diebold are designed to allow for numerous easy methods to steal elections.
Florida 2000, Georgia 2002, Ohio, PA, NM others in 2004 and many small races in 2006 all stolen.
The growing legal liability of it was always the achilles heal. You can steal an election but don't impact the stock price. Americas priorities.
I reported almost a year ago after attending a senior level meeting in which investment groups were pitched on buying out Diebold's voting business. The lawyers admitted to "unknown, but real risk" of suits.
Post from Last Year About Sale of Diebold Election Sys.
And not it appears it's over.
After the California review of code, which came to the same conclusion every Qualified IT Expert had ever come to when examing: These things are built to steal elections... Diebold is selling the entire thing... to a previously unheard of group using an LLC.
I am sure it is another insane christian dominionist group from texas....more when I do more research...
From Brad at BradBlog:
Diebold Elections Systems, Inc. is no more. At least in name.
After a year and a half of conversely trying to dump their failed voting unit and/or lying to customers about the reliability and security of their voting systems, corporate parent Diebold is giving up the ghost of their election business which, according to an analyst in a Reuters report, was "responsible for less than 10 percent of Diebold's revenue, and 100 percent of its bad publicity.
According to a company statement just released, Diebold Elections Systems, Inc. will become Premier Election Solutions as of today. The company president, David Byrd, who has overseen the disastrous election unit for some time, will stay on as President to go down with the ship, apparently.
After a string of disastrous reports on the quality and security of their voting systems, along with plummeting stock prices since last week, it seems clear that Diebold, the once-great, more-than-100-year old company, is doing whatever they can at this point to save the corporate parent. While their stock price (DBD) plummeted at today's opening bell, and is currently down some 5.6% from yesterday, the price has begun to rise again in the last hour or so on news of the sale.
More than anything, however, the move may well be a harbinger of a coming declaration of bankruptcy for Diebold/Premier as we see it. With the unit now spun off from the blue chip Diebold parent, declaring bankruptcy or dissolving the company all together would be less trouble for investors and the main company as a whole...