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Voting Machine CEO: Sorry Mistaken About Comments to Deliver Votes
Posted by Rebecca Bolin on Wednesday, May 12 @ 13:10:16 EDT Governance
The New York Times (and registration-free services) are reporting that voting machine manufacturing company Diebold's chair and CEO, Walden O'Dell, has commented about a letter sent last year that said, "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." He called it a "huge mistake" and claims he and Diebold will have no involvement in politics as long as they are in the "voting business." He claims he only signed a "party invitation" and did not know who had written the message.

Um, Walden, I can't even say that you apologized. So was the mistake the fund-raising party? Or was it getting the invitation published? Or was it that you didn't mean what you a sly mystery writer wrote?

And, uh, Walden, why did it take NINE MONTHS from when it hit the national news to figure this out?

 
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