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Related: About this forumAs I'm scrolling WaPo this morning, I see a photo of a brick building
and think "huh, that looks just like our Board of Elections." Turns out, it was:
Uproar over Dominion voting machines in one Ohio county shows Trumps falsehoods linger
By Hannah Knowles
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/08/stark-county-dominion-voting/
Late last year, amid rampant false claims of a stolen presidential election, officials in a Trump-loving county in Ohio took a stand: They voted 4 to 0 to buy Dominion voting machines.
It was a good deal for the county, years in the making, says Board of Elections Director Jeff Matthews, who heads the Stark County GOP as well. It was also a step into a firestorm Donald Trumps supporters were incorrectly accusing Dominion Voting Systems of helping to rig the 2020 results.
We knew exactly what we were getting into, said Matthews, who has worked on the elections board for 30 years.
By Hannah Knowles
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/08/stark-county-dominion-voting/
Late last year, amid rampant false claims of a stolen presidential election, officials in a Trump-loving county in Ohio took a stand: They voted 4 to 0 to buy Dominion voting machines.
It was a good deal for the county, years in the making, says Board of Elections Director Jeff Matthews, who heads the Stark County GOP as well. It was also a step into a firestorm Donald Trumps supporters were incorrectly accusing Dominion Voting Systems of helping to rig the 2020 results.
We knew exactly what we were getting into, said Matthews, who has worked on the elections board for 30 years.
tl;dr Our voting machines are old and need replaced. We have an opportunity to replace with machines made by Dominion. Trumpers and Q crazies do trumper and q crazy things. GOP county commissioners wring their hands and refuse to act or discuss.
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As I'm scrolling WaPo this morning, I see a photo of a brick building (Original Post)
ok_cpu
Feb 2021
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Cirque du So-What
(27,520 posts)1. Surprising that Diebold machines weren't purchased instead
considering their major presence in the area.
ok_cpu
(2,157 posts)2. I thought about that too. I could be wrong
because it's really convoluted, but I think Diebold is now Dominion. I think it went Diebold -> Premier -> ES&S -> Dominion.
If nothing else, I'm pretty sure Diebold took their names off the machines after it got some stink on it.
Cirque du So-What
(27,520 posts)3. I didn't realize that
Ill have to look into that.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)5. Yes, that's the path.
TwilightZone
(28,833 posts)4. It is Diebold.
They purchased Premier, the renamed Diebold Elections Systems, in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions