Diebold Rebrands What No One Wants 175
Irvu writes "Diebold has apparently failed in their bid to sell their tainted elections systems unit. Unable to find a buyer the CEO of Diebold promised that the system will be run more 'openly and independently.' To prove that they are serious, they renamed it. Diebold Election Systems is now Premiere Election Solutions. They still sell GEMS, AccuVote OS and the ever-unpopular AccuVote-TSX which performed so disastrously in California's Top-to-Bottom Review under the same names. Apparently their rebranding effort only goes so far."
Stick with paper (Score:5, Funny)
old voting systems
[X] paper
bold voting systems
[ ] electronic
There are no old bold voting systems.
DIE bold.
True to their name (Score:2, Funny)
Good idea. (Score:2, Funny)
surely we can do better for a rebrand (Score:5, Funny)
- Guaranteed Result Election Systems
- Early and Often Voting Machines
- DPV (Dead People Vote) Solutions
- NTSC (Never Twice the Same Count) Electionware
I guess their new slogan didn't work. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Diebold and Microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
MS is aimed at corporations, who are top heavy with clueless idiots. You can point out the obvious to them, and they will blindly keep doing whatever it is they were doing, even if it tanks the company. Afterwards, they will be hired by another company to do the exact same thing over again, only they will get paid WAAAAY more this time around.
Re:Have to go by the track record (Score:2, Funny)
It still is shocking that SOME people gave a dam. Most people fuck around all the time, and its probably the only reason to really be alive. I mean computers are nice folks but i'd rather have my fingers else where.
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Re:Good idea. (Score:5, Funny)
Now when elections are stolen, people will be PESsed off.
A rose by any other name? (Score:5, Funny)
[Marketing Guy] Let's rebrand.
[CEO] Ok, what do you suggest?
[Marketing Guy] How about "Blossom"
[CEO] I love it. Lets run with that...
Re:Good idea. (Score:4, Funny)
Matrix voice: "We've been watching you for some time Mr Anderson".
Re:Stick with paper (Score:3, Funny)
What about the Van Eck method of monitoring the voting results?
Emanation monitoring could lead to some interesting early results!
Yeah!
Die Bold II: Die Bolder (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They're looking at a different market. (Score:4, Funny)