Justice Department Decides To Break Up E-Voting Company

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 03/09/2010 - 02:50

As was rumored at the end of last year, the US Justice Department has decided to break up Election Systems & Software (ES&S) , the dominant e-voting provider in the country.

You may recall that just a few months earlier, ES&S (who has a long and troubled history of inaccurate, buggy and insecure e-voting machines) had purchased the remains of Diebold's e-voting business for just $5 million.

Of course, Diebold also had a long and troubled...

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