What should Diebold do...
by freedom_india (780002)

Short answer: None. for Both ATM and voting machines.

Long Answer: I pity diebold. They used to make the world's most secure ATMs. Better than NCR.

Unfortunately the joke of a new CEO, thought that they could follow the success into election voting machines since congress mandated e-voting after the election-stealer Bush won due to hanging chads because hurricane-shocked floridans did not have enough IQ to vote paper votes better and instead spent time spray-painting walls "Go Away Isabel", as if that would make the hurricane go away by magic (the result of living near DisneyLand).

Seeing the "heck of a job" to be done by Diebold in e-voting, the CEO went about buying AccuVote even though internal auditors of Diebold pointed out issues in AccuVote, Inc. The problems of AccuVote did not go away magically when Deibold bought it (IT problems do not go away like financial problems magically). Add to that the "foot-in-mouth" Diebold joker who claimed to "Deliver Florida" to bush since he donated to Bush campaign.

End Result: Non working machines, MS Access using machines (AccuVote was in process of moving to SQL Server when Diebold bought it and scuttled the money donation to MSFT [all ye MSFT haters rejoice]), lotsa smoke due to the chairman's "foot-in-mouth" disease, etc., all conspired to bring Diebold down as a company in both sales and reputation.

What to do: Sell the AccuVote to Carlyle and watch them do an LBO. Concentrate on ATMs and get that oldie Rep. chairman to go hunting quails with Cheney and give Cheney a shotgun filled with steel pellets (not birdshot).

Enjoy Deibold.