$10,000 check not from us, Diebold says

[MelissaB]

$10,000 check not from us, Diebold says

Election official punished for passing donation along

From staff and wire reports


Diebold Corp., the Green-based maker of electronic voting machines, is denying any involvement in a $10,000 check one of its outside consultants handed to Franklin County's elections director on a day the board was opening bids for new voter-registration software.

But that check has landed the Columbus-area election director in hot water.

Matthew Damschroder will lose 30 days' pay for forwarding a $10,000 check to the Republican Party from an outside consultant representing Diebold.

Damschroder acknowledged last week that the consultant, Pasquale ``Pat'' Gallina of Celebrezze & Associates, came to his office and offered $10,000 in January 2004 as the board was considering which firm to award its software business.

...snip

Diebold spokesman Mike Jacobsen said Celebrezze & Associates was employed by Diebold to promote the company's touch-screen election system. He said that if the consulting firm is proved to have provided the check in the name of Diebold, it will be fired.


More: http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/business/12175981.htm

:rofl: Sounds familiar...

[rosesaylavee]

1. Yo, sounds like Pat

is one of da boys. You gotta problum wid dat?

[MelissaB]

2. Hey, rosesaylavee!

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[rosesaylavee]

6. Thanks

Glad to be here.

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3. RW SOP: Lie, Cheat, Steal, Get Caught, Lie some more....

and how dare you question our integrity!

I'm waiting for a flood of justice

[Child_Of_Isis]

4. "will be fired"

Geesh...is this the new catch phrase? Bet we believe it, don't we?

[Erika]

5. will be fired if a criminal action has been filed

and a conviction found. Until then, it will just be standard republican operation procedures.