New Voting Machine Information. Had Anyone Else Seen This Info Earlier??

Did you know that Diebold Election Systems is now Premier Election Solutions? And that it was sold to Election Systems and Software based in Omaha, NE last September? Now the Justice Department is forcing ES & S to sell it's Premier part of the business because the purchase threatened competition.

How did I miss that Diebold changed to Premier Election Systems, and then was sold????? Was this even in the news?????

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/ess-sued-in-antitru...

"Even before the sale, ES&S, based in Omaha, Nebraska, was the nation’s largest voting-machine maker, with machines being used in 43 states. ES&S systems were “utilized in counting approximately 50 percent of the votes in the last four major U.S. elections,” according to the company’s website. The company also created statewide voter registration systems used in California, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska and New Mexico.

Its acquisition of Premier, the second-largest voting machine maker with equipment used in 33 states, gave it a near monopoly on election gear and would have had the company providing 70 percent of voting equipment in the country. Premier was a division of Diebold, Inc, which is based in Canton, Oh.

Election integrity activists expressed concern at the time that the purchase would have a detrimental effect on competitive pricing for election districts and would also affect the development of accurate and secure voting systems, since ES&S would have little incentive to improve its voting systems without viable competitors. They were also concerned that ES&S would stop supporting the Premier equipment and try to pressure election officials who owned the equipment into purchasing ES&S machines."