Walden O'Dell

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Walden "Wally" O'Dell was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Diebold, a US-based security and financial products company.

He was an active fundraiser for George W. Bush's re-election campaign and wrote in a fund-raising letter dated August 13, 2003, that he was committed "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President."[1] His involvement with the campaign raised concerns that, as the CEO of the largest manufacturer of electronic voting equipment,[citation needed] he would have been in a position to attempt to manipulate the results of the presidential election of 2004. Voting machines of Diebold Election Systems (now Premier Election Solutions) are closed source and some do not provide an auditable paper record.

In December 2005, O'Dell left the company "for personal reasons" following reports that the company was facing securities fraud litigation surrounding charges of insider trading[2].

In October 2005, a person using a Diebold computer edited this article to remove paragraphs about Walden O'Dell, chief executive of the company, which revealed that he had been "a top fund-raiser" for George Bush. A month later, other paragraphs and links to stories about the alleged rigging of the 2004 election were also removed. The paragraphs and links have since been reinstated.[3]

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  1. ^ Paul R. La Monica (August 30, 2004). The trouble with e-voting. CNN/Money. Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
  2. ^ John Byrne (December 12, 2005). Diebold CEO resigns after reports of fraud litigation, internal woes. The Raw Story. Retrieved on 2006-10-23.
  3. ^ Jonathan Fildes (August 15, 2007). Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits'. BBC World News. Retrieved on 2007-08-15.

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