The Department of Justice announces that it will “require Election Systems & Software (ES&S) to divest voting equipment systems assets it purchased in September 2009 from Premier Election Solutions Inc. in order to restore competition.”
“The assets to be divested include the means to produce all versions of Premier’s hardware, software and firmware used to record, tabulate, transmit or report votes, including the Assure 1.2 system, and a license to better serve disabled voters. The department said that today’s settlement will restore competition in voting equipment systems in the United States and that, without the divestiture, the acquisition would result in higher prices, lower quality and a reduced incentive to innovate,” according to the Justice Department statement.
The states affected are: “Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Tennessee and Washington.”
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1. Could the Justice Department decision to force the sale of Premier be related to Dominion’s planned acquisitions of voting systems technology?
2. ES&S’s forced divestment of Premier was mandated to take place within 60 days or the government would take over. What was the hurry?
3. Was the swing state Arizona targeted, or is this merely a coincidence?
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