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Article: Voting machine merger alarming.(PLUGGED IN - POLITICS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2009
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Byline: Sean Lengell, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The pending merger of two of the nation's largest voting machine companies has triggered alarm bells, legal action and a federal inquiry over concerns that the deal could adversely effect how the country votes.
Election Systems & Software Inc. (ES&S) of Omaha, Neb., - the country's largest voting-machine manufacturer - this month announced plans to purchase Premier Election Solutions Inc, the voting machine division of Diebold Inc. of Ohio, giving one company an almost 70 percent share of the nation's voting machine market.
Critics of the deal worry that it could harm the integrity of U.S. elections by ...