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===O'Dell's fundraising===
In August 2003, [[Walden O'Dell]], chief executive of Diebold, announced that he had been a top fundraiser for [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] and had sent a get-out-the-funds letter to [[Ohio]] [[United States Republican Party|Republicans]]. In the letters he said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/opinion/hack-the-vote.html |title=Hack The Vote |author=Paul Krugman |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 2, 2003 |access-date=June 21, 2012}}</ref> Although he clarified his statement as merely a poor choice of words, critics of Diebold and/or the Republican party interpreted this as at minimum an indication of a [[conflict of interest]], at worst implying a risk to the fair counting of ballots. He responded to the critics by pointing out that the company's election machines division is run out of [[Texas]] by a registered [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]. Nonetheless, O'Dell vowed to lower his political profile lest his personal actions harm the company. O'Dell resigned his post of chairman and chief executive of Diebold on December 12, 2005, following reports that the company was facing securities fraud litigation surrounding charges of insider trading.<ref name="CB1">{{cite web| last=Lundin|first=Leigh |title=Dangerous Ideas |url=http://criminalbrief.com/?p=1892 |work=Voting Fiasco, Part 279.236(a) |publisher=Criminal Brief |access-date=October 7, 2010 |date=August 17, 2008 }}</ref>