Here's a five-step plan guaranteed to make an obscure company absolutely notorious.
First get into a business you don't understand, selling to customers who barely understand it either. Then roll out your product without adequate testing. Don't hire enough skilled people. When people notice problems, deny, obfuscate and ignore. Finally, blame your critics when it all blows up in your face.
With missteps like those, it would be hard to ...
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First-rate description, history, and analysis, artfully put together, researched and thought through in depth. The intriguing lead (how to make a corporation infamous) creates an anticipation which is not disappointed, and Gimbel invests the chronicle of Diebolds fateful involvement with electronic voting machines with that hallmark of all good writing: suspense---even when the outcome is known. He also demonstrates, despite ones gut misgivings, that the company is not malicious, merely (always that word, merely) naive, ignorant, and sometimes stupid---though how any American adult could have lived through the 2000 election and not known that was when the mechanics of voting became politicized beggars ... More »
A welcome overview on Diebhold voting machines. A fair report on root causes of the problem, with much-appreciated context about the future of electronic voting. Even though this is a short piece, it gives a good sense of the big picture.
Great historical overview of Diebold's election machine business. Some parenthetical comments hint at other stories not told. In general this is an overview; much is not told. Good balance.
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