Abramoff, Ohio Republican Robert Ney--and DIEBOLD!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 4:52pm

You will need to take a shower after reading this.

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Diebold -- the much-beleagured-of-late American Voting Machine company -- paid as much as $275,000 to Abramoff's firm, Greenberg Traurig for lobbying work, The BRAD BLOG has now found additional details that begin to shed new light on Ney's personal connections to Diebold lobbyists.

Such personal connections include those with Ney's former chief of staff turned lobbyist, David DiStefano who has been working on behalf of Diebold, Inc. and at least one other Voting Machine Company, as a registered lobbyist in the House going back to at least 2001. One of DiStefano's online bios crows about his having "an insider’s edge to hard-to-reach political officials." That "insider's edge" has proven to have been a very worthwhile investment for the Voting Machine Companies who purchased access into Ney's political office.

Congressional lobbying records reveal that Diebold, Inc. has paid at least $180,000 to DiStefano and eventually his partner, Roy C. Coffee, to lobby for the "Help America Vote Act" and other "Election Reform Issues" in Congress since 2003. Another Electronic Voting Machine Company, AccuPoll, Inc., also paid DiStefano some $70,000 to lobby for HAVA on their behalf in 2002, though that relationship was apparently terminated once the legislation was passed by Congress.



In turn, Ney's former employee DiStefano and Coffee themselves have given nearly $20,000 to Bob Ney's campaigns dating back to 2002.

The connections of DiStefano and Coffee don't stop at Congress, however. Both lobbyists now work out of the new Washington office of the Texas-based law firm of Lock, Liddell & Sapp LLP -- the firm of George W. Bush's White House Counsel Harriet Miers. And Coffee, himself, had previously worked as a senior aide to the then-Governor Bush back in Texas.
The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection To Electoral Fraud

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 5:29pm

And just HOW MANY votes were placed on Diebold electronic voting machines with no paper trail in the 2004 election??

at least 40 MILLION??

[Plum]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 5:31pm

Didn't they get decommissioned in California? That warmed the cockles of my shrivelled heart.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 6:26pm

And don't you just love it when the head of Diebold guarantees Ohio to the Republicans.

Don't get me started on Ohio, and all of the irregularities that went on there, the outright election fraud committeed by the Republicans . . .

Shenanigans called on all of them.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 6:34pm

Thank goodness no Democrats are suspected of doing damage.


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Updated On: 1/10/06 at 06:34 PM

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 6:34pm

I said it in November, and I will say it again. Bush and Co. STOLE both elections.

And the Democrats let them.

Updated On: 1/10/06 at 06:34 PM

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 6:36pm

I love it.
Diebold helps steal the election for Republicans and Gotham posts about campaign staffers slashing tires.
Good one.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 1/10/06 at 8:19pm

Goth - is that the best you got?