Voting machine firm's past questioned (possible Diebold purchase in Pgh)

[Lori Price CLG]

Voting machine firm's past questioned

Diebold Inc., a multibillion dollar company that soon may sell 5,600 touch-screen voting machines to Allegheny County, has seen its share of public relations nightmares.

In 2003, then-chief executive officer Wally O'Dell -- a top fund-raiser for President Bush's re-election campaign -- sent out a letter to Ohio Republicans promising that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year."

Over the next several years, some computer experts and election officials pointed out potential security flaws with the company's machines, and cries of conspiracy and fraud circulated in the press and on the Internet.

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The company has told Allegheny County that it could deliver 5,600 machines by the May 16 primary election, at a cost of $11.9 million. But the county's elections board, which meets Tuesday, needs to decide soon.

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See: Pittsburgh Must Undo the Coup! 05 Feb 2006 CLG Webpage that contains the following information and full contact info for the Allegheny County Council me mbers, and an 'email this page to a friend' option

Lori Price

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1. Can't let this slip away.

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