Diebold 2002 Annual Report
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More than 140 years ago, Diebold went into business making strong, reliable safes. Today, we remain a leader in providing electronic and physical security products, backed by services and support for financial institutions as well as for government, industrial and commercial markets. In fact, we're particularly proud to be providing the security systems for the renovated National Archives building, which houses such national treasures as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

As a security-based company providing high-tech, integrated systems, software and services, we're making sure other self-service applications are just as safe and reliable. Among the more important such applications are voting systems. During 2002, our Diebold Election Systems subsidiary broke new ground by winning contracts for and delivering more than 27,000 electronic touch-screen voting stations in Georgia and Maryland alone. The Election Day results? Our customers won by a landslide, with our voting systems delivering smooth, secure performance.

Based on these results, our election systems business continues to gain momentum. Most recently, Diebold was selected to provide some 10,000 touch-screen voting systems for about 1,600 polling locations in San Diego County, Calif.

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