Diebold declare on Thursday that it has sell its balloting car division to Election Systems & Software ( ES&S ) , a former competitor . Diebold ’s unceremonious departure from the electronic ballot machine business will be welcomed by critics of the party ’s controversial direct - recording electronic vote products .
Diebold , which is primarily an ATM maker , make up one’s mind to unload its voting car subsidiary — Premier Election Solutions — for roughly $ 5 million and change . As a consequence of the deal , the fellowship look to account a red ink of over $ 45 million . According to a statement issued by Diebold , the company has been reckon for a way out of the vote machine illegitimate enterprise ( “ pursuing strategic alternatives to possession ” ) since 2006 when it realise that the whole enterprise was intractably dysfunctional ( “ identified its US elections systems line of work as non - core to its mathematical process ” ) .
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