Dominion uses some Die-Bold technology.
Apparently Dominion bought into Die-Bold technology related to voting machines. Here are two answers regarding who owns the Die-Bold voting machine segment. There are also many interesting related questions and answers in this link.
Answer (1 of 2): Diebold sold this unit many years ago. You can readily find the history. What is not always obvious in the history is that voting machines were never an integral part of Diebold. When Congress threw a ton of money to the states to buy such equipment after the 2000 election(*), mo...
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Earl Rodd
Served on National Committee for a 3rd party. Served as elector for the party.
Answered 7 months ago · Author has 1.9K answers and 387.9K answer views
Diebold sold this unit many years ago. You can readily find the history. What is not always obvious in the history is that voting machines were never an integral part of Diebold. When Congress threw a ton of money to the states to buy such equipment after the 2000 election(*), most of us technies would say that the technology was not “ready for prime time.” Diebold bought a company that made them hoping this might develop into a large business. The voting machine company operated as a separate unit. Some states (like mine) still have machines with the Diebold logo on them - this means they are really old!
The first embarrassment was when the code from the voting machines was accidentally left on the public Internet. To computer scientists, it was obvious that the authors of the code were learning about security “on the fly” - i.e. they lacked experience - pretty scary for voting machines. Then there were incidents in which the machines had various problems and compromises. Diebold, whose major customers for its important products are banks, saw no sense in keeping a marginally profitable business that was causing reputational damage and sold the unit off. There was a conspiracy theory that because the president of Diebold is a Republican, they were using the machine to rig elections. It’s been a lot of years, but living near Diebold HQ, there was a lot in local reporting and I’ve talked to people who worked in Diebold and tend to much favor the story I’ve told above to the rather crazy conspiracy theory.
(*) As is always the case with legislation passed in a hurry, the Help American Vote Act probably caused more problems than it solved. We effectively spent a lot of money replacing punch card systems, whose problems where known and understood, with untried, complex, electronic machines. The obvious thing to have done was to shift from punch cards to paper, waiting for electronic machines to mature and be tried in only a few places to gain experience.
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David R. Jefferson
, voting and election security expert for 20 years
Answered 1 year ago · Author has 535 answers and 261.6K answer views
Does Diebold manufacture software in U.S. voting machines?
Diebold (now Diebold Nixdorf) is a U.S. financial and technology conglomerate that bought a voting machine company in 2002 called Global Election Systems, Inc. It became a subsidiary of Diebold and was renamed Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (DESI).
For the period in which Diebold owned it subsidiary, DESI, you could say that YES, Diebold produced software and hardware for its own branded voting machines. At its height DESI owned a large fraction (20% or more) of the entire U.S. voting machine market.
However, DESI fell on hard times after a series of scandals in which their voting machines, both their precinct optical scan systems and their touchscreen direct recording electronic (DRE) systems, were found by independent researchers to have many profound security vulnerabilities which Diebold vigorously but falsely denied. The company also committed acts illegal in some states, such as “upgrading” voting machine software in certain jurisdictions in California without having the new versions tested and recertified as required by California law and regulation.
Eventually the Diebold brand was so badly tarnished that the parent company decided in 2007 to divest itself of the subsidiary, which then changed its name to Premier Election Solutions. In 2009 the company went out of business entirely, with its assets and contracts sold to two competitors, Election Systems and Software (ES&S) and Dominion Voting Systems.
Nonetheless, 11 years later some of its systems and software, with security vulnerabilities still uncorrected, remain in use in some states.
A more detailed story can be found in Wikipedia. See
Premier Election Solutions - Wikipedia
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