Shoup Voting Machine Corporation

[9] Aerospace business Macrodyne-Chatillon Corporation "acquired Shoup Voting Machines in 1969 for an estimated $6,000,000, primarily in stock.

"[6] As a result of adverse publicity from criminal charges (see next section) and a "$2.3 million federal income tax lien which resulted in the Internal Revenue Service seizing certain assets", "effective March 31, 1972, Macrodyne-Chatillon wrote off its investment in, and deconsolidated, The Shoup Voting Machine Corporation (Shoup), a wholly-owned subsidiary.

[3] In 2015, Virginia decertified all 3000 of its Advanced Voting Solutions WINvote machines after widespread publicity about previously disclosed security flaws, including a hardwired Wi-Fi password of "abcde".

[13] A wide variety of other flaws were documented in the machines, which used unpatched versions of Windows XP Embedded from 2002 that were vulnerable to a critical buffer overflow attack.

[15][16] According to one indictment, "Shoup officials conspired to sell 200 machines to Hillsborough County", Florida, for $530,700 using bribery, then bought 180 back as scrap for $5,400.

[18] In the 1973 trial, the case against Downs, pushed by United States Attorney Gerald J. Gallinghouse, resulted in a hung jury.