Diebold changes it’s name to Premier Election Solutions Inc = PESI
Today Diebold, a company once known primarily for making safes and ATMs, announced that it has decided to put some distance between it and its beleaguered voting machine division — Diebold Election Systems Inc, (aka DESI), which the company purchased from Global Election Systems in 2002.
The company said that after failing to find a buyer for its voting machine business, it was changing the name of the division to Premier Election Solutions Inc (or PESI) and was giving it more “independence” by establishing a separate board of directors to run it.
Full Story on Wired Magazine
When you are in control of the voting systems… being political is a bad idea… it took Diebold years to figure this out.
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