Saturday, May 12, 2012

Wonkette: Omaha World-Herald company loses tens of thousands of votes in South Bronx

Wikipedia says ES&S is a subsidiary of McCarthy Group, LLC, which is jointly held by the holding firm and the Omaha World-Herald Company, the publisher of Nebraska's largest newspaper. Diebold Election Systems became Premier Election Systems, which was acquired by ES&S in 2009. From Wonkette:
This came to light when the radio station WNYC reported in 2011 that tens of thousands of  votes had been lost in the 2010 races for both Senate seats and and the Governor’s mansion. In response to the very serious problem of the losing of 30% of votes cast, the state Board of Election and the electronic voting machines’ manufacturer ES&S (née Diebold) assembled a crack team of experts to figure out what went wrong...

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