Diebold Finds Voting Machine Business Stormy

NNN0LHI

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Sat May-08-04 01:32 PM
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Diebold Finds Voting Machine Business Stormy

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAE6UCYZTD.html

NORTH CANTON, Ohio (AP) - After the Florida punch-card debacle hurt the credibility of the last presidential election, ATM maker Diebold Inc. decided it should expand into electronic voting.

"In November of 2000, I was embarrassed for this country," said Walden W. O'Dell, Diebold's chairman and chief executive.

The Florida fiasco also inspired Congress, which appropriated $3.9 billion for an overhaul of the nation's voting systems - one that was to be fueled by technology promised by the likes of Diebold.

But Diebold has yet to realize large rewards for its shift into electronic voting.

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whistle

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Sat May-08-04 01:38 PM
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1. Diebold needs to be shut down as a company....

...the company is part of the neo-con/right-wing conspiracy to take control of the United States and politically turn us into a fascist/military state.

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dusty64

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Sat May-08-04 03:41 PM
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4. Couldn't agree more.

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leesa

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Sat May-08-04 01:39 PM
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2. That whole chad fiasco was a set-up to get states to install their

machines. The whole bogus deal was just one more GOP con job.

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kskiska

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Sat May-08-04 01:57 PM
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3. Oh, boy

In August, O'Dell said in a fund-raising letter for the Ohio Republican Party that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes" to Bush.

The letter was sent just as Ohio's top elections official, a Republican, was about to qualify Diebold as one of three companies eligible to sell electronic voting machines in the state.

"The issue won't go away. I feel very badly about it," O'Dell said told The Associated Press. "I made a misstep with that letter."

O'Dell, who has been a guest of the president in Texas, said that since September he has sworn off politics.

I'll just bet he has.

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fearnobush

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Sat May-08-04 03:44 PM
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5. OH Wally, OH Wally, OH Mr. O'Dell.

You have stolen a nation, and have sent it to hell.

Walden O'Dell is: "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes" to Bush.

If LIEBOLD and Mr. :puke: O'Dell was truly sincere about this quote, he would have also stated that paper trails are needed like they are in all his ATM Machines.

:puke: Republicans of Greed and Fascism.

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Sun May-09-04 07:40 AM
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6. Diebold featured in today's Akron newspaper

Edited on Sun May-09-04 07:42 AM by obietiger

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/business/8625251.htm

and yes, the article mentions Diebold's CEO Walden O'Dell's statement to deliver the electoral votes to Bush.

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BeFree

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Sun May-09-04 07:46 AM
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7. Poor diebold

They are getting Harris'ed to death, eh?

Harris'ed as in Bev Harris!

Go Bev!

What the world needs now
is a thousand more Bevs
That's the only thing
that the world needs more of.

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