Diebold bribed Franklin County, Ohio officials.

[jmcon007]

Surely not!

Posted at The Raw Story:

A member of Ohio's Franklin County election board said Friday that prosecutors are investigating whether a GOP political consultant tried to bribe the board's director to buy voting equipment made by his client, Diebold Inc, the (information-restricted) Cleveland Plain Dealer reports Saturday...

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Diebold_lobbyist_tried_to_bribe_Ohio_county_with__0716.html

[Rude Horner]

1. Of course not. They wouldn't do THAT!

And don't call me "Shirley". :)

[jmcon007]

2. ok, Gertrude.

[Alizaryn]

3. I hope Blackwell is sleeping well these days....

[On the Road]

4. I Like to Hear the Word "Prosecutor"

It would be better if the bribe were for covering up irregularities, but once it's being investigated, it can go in any direction.

[senseandsensibility]

5. Kick

This is an important issue. Don't let it die!

[Peace Patriot]

6. Unfortunately, corruption in the electronic voting business is bipartisan.

Check out this hogfest: a week of fun and sun for election officials from around the country at the Beverly Hilton, sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia. It will burn your eyeballs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

Note: Connie McCormack is the head of Los Angeles County elections. She is pro-paperless voting and a Diebold advocate. Her best friend is the former chief salesperson for Diebold in California (currently Asst. Registrar in Solano County). McCormack was a leader in the destruction of former CA Sec of State Kevin Shelley, who had sued Diebold and decertified the worst of their voting machines (touchscreens) prior to the 2004 election. McCormack is a Democrat.

[LittleWoman]

7. The most revealing part of this whole story

is that this guy from Diebold just walked into the Franklin County Board of Elections office to give a check to Damschroder! For crying out loud, the Board of Elections--what chutzpah! There was no pretense to make this look like anything other than a bribe. I have lived in Franklin County Ohio for 27 years and I thought I had seen everything, but lately the level of Republican corruption has reached a new record. I have worked at the polls in Franklin County for the last 15 years and this year for the first time I got a letter several months after the election from Blackwell thanking me for my service,

"Your commitment to democracy never once faltered on November 2nd as you greeted hundreds of anxious voters and answered their questions. Your professionalism and dedication through an unrelenting day did not go unnoticed by the world or me. In fact, your performance as Election Day officials has set the standard for the rest of the country to follow."

This clap trap from the man who most likely was behind the election fraud in Ohio and was likely the recipient of $50,000 from the same guy from Diebold who gave the $10,000 to Damschroder. As I said in an earlier post in LBN I think this is an effort on the part of the anti-Blackwell Republicans to get rid of Blackwell who has not been hurt much by the coingate scandal.

[Al-CIAda]

9. It goes with Politicians getting paid by lobbyists on the congress floor.

They have bought our 'reps' and stolen America.

[librechik]

12. Welcome, Little Woman

Please visit DU frequently!

:hi:

[snowbear]

8. Cleveland Plain Dealer

Does anyone know the subject matter of the "huge public interest" story that the Cleveland Plain Dealer stopped the presses on last week?

Some here were guessing it had to do with Diebold, and others were guessing it had to do with coin-gate.

So... we still don't know yet what they were going to print? :shrug:

[Capn Sunshine]

10. This was in the Columbus Dispatch this AM

Maybe they got scooped?
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A contractor who represents Diebold Election Systems arrived at the office of Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder with an open checkbook on the same day the county was opening bids for voter-registration software.

Pasquale "Pat" Gallina arrived unannounced, Damschroder said.

"I’m here to give you $10,000," the elections director recalls Gallina saying. "Who do I make it payable to?"

"Well, you’re certainly not going to make it out to me," Damschroder says he told Gallina. "But I’m sure the Franklin County Republican Party would appreciate a donation."

Gallina wrote the check, and Damschroder says he took it on Jan. 9, 2004. That weekend, Damschroder said, he mailed the check to the county party. Damschroder had been executive director of the party until June 2003, when he was appointed director of the elections board.
the rest of the sleazy story

[Al-CIAda]

11. .

[wallwriter]

13. I'm surprised they wouldn't just use Diebold machines

on orders from *.