Diebold Rebrands What No One Wants

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."

Comments

Stick with paper

[the_other_one]

There are:
    old voting systems
[X] paper
    bold voting systems
[ ] electronic

There are no old bold voting systems.

DIE bold.

Re:Stick with paper

[crashlanding]

Hey,
What about the Van Eck method of monitoring the voting results?
Emanation monitoring could lead to some interesting early results!
Yeah!

True to their name

[Arthur Grumbine]

At least their death (and "rebirth") was rather bold.

Good idea.

[WK2]

Got caught sleeping on the job? Producing crap? Everybody hates you? Have a bad reputation? Change your name! Maybe some people will think you are a new company.

Re:Good idea.

[vought]

Premiere Election Solutions

Now when elections are stolen, people will be PESsed off.

Re:Good idea.

[dbIII]

Got caught sleeping on the job? Producing crap? Everybody hates you? Have a bad reputation? Change your name! Maybe some people will think you are a new company.

Matrix voice: "We've been watching you for some time Mr Anderson".

surely we can do better for a rebrand

[Anonymous Coward]

we need to brainstorm some, how about

- 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.

[WarlockD]

"Vote once, count many!"

Re:Diebold and Microsoft

[grasshoppa]

It's a difference of audience. Diebold sells to the government, who hates it when the public points out that it's getting raped by a private contractor.

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

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

Right because as we all know, that a man will only have one female sexual partner in his whole life...

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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A rose by any other name?

[Demerara]

[CEO] Hmmm, sales of "Turd" have dropped off severely...

[Marketing Guy] Let's rebrand.

[CEO] Ok, what do you suggest?

[Marketing Guy] How about "Blossom" ... ? ...

[CEO] I love it. Lets run with that...

Die Bold II: Die Bolder

[iainl]

As Subject, surely?

Re:They're looking at a different market.

[enjerth]

And as an Aussie I have to ask, why Tuesday? There's nothing good on TV on Tuesdays.