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>This list does not include Diebold/Premier or Sequoia, which seem to come under the Dominion umbrella.
All the existing products were decertified by the Election Assistance Commission, and then by the states. The new range of products had to comply with a requirement that they be auditable - a joke, I know - but it led to a new set of certification standards and concomitant investment by election authorities.
While Dominion has received much focus in recent weeks, it’s far from the largest vendor nationwide. Where it impacted this election is in state level decisions, GA and MI particularly, where Dominion was essentially a cram down in county election boards by the state executive.
By contrast, PA - while mandating upgrade in systems throughout the state - did not pick a single vendor. The decisions were left to individual counties to select from the available alternatives. The majority of counties in PA selected a product from ES&S. ES&S has the largest number of installed systems nationwide.
Why, for example, if Dominion is the gold standard in throwing elections, would both Pittsburg and Philadelphia (two cities close to allegations of irregularity) invest in new electronic election infrastructure from ES&S?
Is it fundamental security vulnerabilities that are really the issue, rather than vendor? Is there a common underlying vulnerability in the code? Are all manufacturers putting out products known (at least by some) to be leaky sieves?
ES&S deserves some scrutiny, along with Dominion. How independent (in terms of technology) are these companies? Are they cross licensing software to/from each other? There is some suggestion that they are. An ES&S contract that was made public has an entire section on sub licensed software redacted. Who licenses code to ES&S? How long has this been going on ..?
ES&S acquired Premier from Diebold in 2009, but in 2010 was ordered to divest that division by the DOJ, for competitive reasons. Who bought Premier? Dominion did. And Dominion also bought Sequoia. Looks like the Obama DOJ was in some sense engineering the playing field for Dominion to become established in the US election market.