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.