Reality check on Hart-Intercivic voting machine company and its owndership by Romney partisans

[Kelvin Mace]

8. Just to clarify

It is still the Diebold hardware/software that Diebold bought from Global Election Systems back in 1999, but Premier Election Solutions (PES) is no longer owned by Diebold, which sold the division at a MAJOR loss several years ago. ES&S bought the division, but sold it to another company, Dominion Voting Systems when anti-trust issues were raised. DVS bought Sequoia Voting Systems meaning that it controls two of the four former voting machine vendors.

Paper ballots, handled properly, with optical scanners and strict auditing and public observation of the counting process is cheaper and more accurate than any paperless system. Moving to a mail-in system would be cheaper still.