Everyone loves to hate Diebold's voting machines. They're kludgy, they run on an embedded version of WINDOWS (ick) and they are quite easy to hack. Never mind that the rest of the field is pretty much right behind them...equally unreliable.

Now the company is looking to unload its voting machine division because as well as the unreliability issues Diebold's bottom line and the reputation of its other stock in trade (safes, bank vaults, ATMs, etc.) are suffering guilt-by-association with the "black box" voting machines they sell. So they may be looking to unload that snake-bitten division to improve their bottom line.

Perennial geek news site Slashdot is discussing this. I figured we should too.

I know that the audience here is not just US-ians like myself.   We have regular contributors from Europe and from Canada. So please, help a poor, benighted US-ian out here.

How do you like your single-payer health care over there?

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(Cross-posted from my blog, MsGeek.Org)

The Los Angeles Times seems to have fallen in love anew with The Gropenfuhrer. They went so far as to ask California's Representatives and Congresspeople what they would think of changing the rules and allowing the foreign-born to run for the highest office in the land.

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