Diebold's election division "Premier Election Systems"

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Didn't know how much coverage this has gotten but I found it in my county's blog. Why does this remind me of Valujet changing it's name to Airtran? Do they think people won't remember 2000 and 2004 if they do their theft under a different company name?

This "Premier Election Systems" may be a company to keep an eye on in the next few months.



http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ELECTION_JUNK?SITE=AZTUS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

The demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: Warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers.

What to do with this high-tech junkyard is a multimillion-dollar question. One manufacturer offered $1 a piece to take back its ATM-like machines. Some states are offering the devices for sale on eBay and craigslist. Others hope to sell their inventories to Third-World countries or salvage them for scrap.

A few more are holding out hope that the machines, some of which were purchased for as much as $5,000, could one day be resurrected.

"We store them very, very carefully in the hopes that someone, someday may decide that we can use them again," said San Diego County Registrar Deborah Seiler, whose jurisdiction spent $25 million on the devices.

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From my county's blog that had a link to the above article:

http://www.baumbach.org/b2evolution/blogs/index.php?title=electronic_voting_under_fire_errors_admi&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1


These are the very same machines and software used here in Collin County.

Diebold, the manufacturer of our voting machines, fearing "unlimited liability" in case of an election failure, spun off the elections division to form Premier Election Systems. The company is based in Allen.

Collin County recently (July 8) authorized the purchase of an additional 410 "gently used" touch screen voting machines from Premier. The county now owns 1,410 of these AccuVote machines.