Diebold CEO Resigns Under Cloud

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday December 13, 2005 @10:45AM 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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"Faulty" machines no accident by danratherfoe · 2005-12-13 11:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

These so-called "faults" with voting machines are anything but an accident. Witness the case of Senator Chuck Hagle magically winning his senate seat in Nebraska after being far down in the polls (the first republican elected to the senate there in 24 years, at the time). It turns out that 80% of his votes were counted by ES&S machines (a company that he has ownership ties to). That is just one of many, many examples. Check out these links: http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Oct/gee20031 009022127.htm http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/vote_fraud_vot e_machines_under_scrutiny.htm http://www.infowars.com/print/evoting/hired_felons .htm