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To: Sully- who wrote (694904)	8/2/2005 12:31:18 PM
From: JBTFD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

bbvforums.org "Diebold Corp., the Green-based maker of electronic voting machines, is denying any involvement in a $10,000 check one of its outside consultants handed to Franklin County's elections director on a day the board was opening bids for new voter-registration software. But that check has landed the Columbus-area election director in hot water. Matthew Damschroder will lose 30 days' pay for forwarding a $10,000 check to the Republican Party from an outside consultant representing Diebold. Damschroder acknowledged last week that the consultant, Pasquale ``Pat'' Gallina of Celebrezze & Associates, came to his office and offered $10,000 in January 2004 as the board was considering which firm to award its software business. Damschroder told Gallina to make the check out to the Franklin County Republican Party as a donation. Diebold didn't get the software contract, and Damschroder said he never recommended the company. But Damschroder said he should not have taken the check. "