As I'm scrolling WaPo this morning, I see a photo of a brick building

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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 Trump’s 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 Trump’s 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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1. Surprising that Diebold machines weren't purchased instead

considering their major presence in the area.

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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.

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3. I didn't realize that

I’ll have to look into that.

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5. Yes, that's the path.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions

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4. It is Diebold.

They purchased Premier, the renamed Diebold Elections Systems, in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions