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Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud

Posted by Zonk on from the should-have-gone-into-another-business dept.

Philip K Dickhead writes "After numerous ethical lapses and much controversy, Diebold CEO, Wally O'Dell resigned to the applause of the markets. Diebold's price improved more than 5% today, as the story broke. Business Week is reporting that O'Dell is leaving for "personal reasons", although the news blog Raw Story cites board action on imminent securities fraud litigation, and legal challenges by states claiming fraudulent certification of Diebold voting machines. Latest vulnerability tests show an impossibly negligent attention to vote security and privacy." Not overly surprising, considering their recent childish antics in NC.

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  1. Whoa by NitsujTPU · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Zonk submitted a story worth reading.

    Guess you snobs are all eating your words now, eh?

  2. Re:He's served his purpose by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You mean he helped deliver Ohio by legally contributing money to his campaign and help to fundraise for him?

    Or are you trying to imply that he helped to rig the machines and conspire to illegally and unlawfully rig the election?

    I'd like to post any credible evidence for that assertion because a lot of wackjobs run around saying it without backing it up. If that is really what happened, I guess we are all living in the Matrix, while you guys have unplugged from it because the reality in every rational, sane person in the country thinks Bush won fair and square.

  3. Bad news by geekoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    God doesn't vote.

    Good news:
    People who believe in God are easily manipulated into thinking that of Kerry won, they would be forced to marry someone of the same sex.

    I think I got those backwards.

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    1. Re:Bad news by kimvette · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      likely because both realizes that Kerry would be an evil far worse than even Satan would dare bring on this land? ;)

      (Sorry, I just can't stand John Kerry. I'd vote for Osama Bin Laden before I'd vote for Kerry)

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  4. Diebold must die in a bold way by smagruder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The company with the slogan "We won't rest... until American democracy is destroyed" (my twist) needs to be destroyed itself.

    The American people need to exclaim: "Paper trails, or we're shutting down the 2006 election". No more election theft!!!

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    Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
  5. Buck Fush by Urusai · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You can't be sane and not realize that Bush is a fuckwit with an evil agenda. The "fair and balanced" media makes him appear credible by NOT pointing this out, making it implicitly pro-Bush. The question is whether you are part of that evil agenda, or just plain ignant, in which case you need to go back to collecting NASCAR memorabilia and leave the voting to others.

  6. Re:The customer is not always right by misleb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Democrats in the US are a whole lot like socialists.

    -matthew

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  7. hee, hee, all the bushleaguers are going to jail by swschrad · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    one by one, their creepy crawly tactics will get them all. diebold as rehabbed and taken through chapter 11 by the K street machine might as well go all the way down, LeFebure makes nice auto teller machines, and IBM does real good POP workstations for banks.

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    if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?