Honest Voting

I was curious about the future of Diebold’s election machine division — yes, they make machines other than electronic voting machines, particularly ATMs (and doesn’t a moment of thought about that make you feel more comfortable about who has access to your money). So I started looking around. Here’s what Marketwatch said a couple of weeks ago:

The performance and near-term market expectations for the Premier Election Solutions subsidiary remain unchanged from the company’s April 30, 2008 release. While Diebold fully supports its elections subsidiary, the company also continues to pursue strategic alternatives to ownership of this company.

“Strategic alternatives to ownership” is one of the best euphemisms I have ever heard.