Remember Diebold? One of the companies that took some heat years ago for reported problems with their e-voting machines? Well, they've apparently had enough. Diebold is getting out of the e-voting business and selling that segment to Election Systems & Software, Inc. (ES&S) in a deal worth $5 million.

Diebold said it has known since early 2006 that its election systems business was "non-core to its operations." It has been in the e-voting business since January 2002 when it purchased Global Election Systems, Inc.

In 2004, researchers from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) published a report on e-voting that criticized the security of Diebold e-voting machines. At the time, Diebold machines were used in 37 states.