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Vendor’s donation questioned - Diebold rep gave $10,000 to county GOP
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 18, 2005 07:36pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Columbus Dispatch |
| News Date | Tuesday, July 19, 2005 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A contractor who represents Diebold Election Systems arrived at the office of Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matthew Damschroder with an open checkbook on the same day the county was opening bids for voter-registration software.
Pasquale "Pat" Gallina arrived unannounced, Damschroder said.
"I’m here to give you $10,000," the elections director recalls Gallina saying. "Who do I make it payable to?"
"Well, you’re certainly not going to make it out to me," Damschroder says he told Gallina. "But I’m sure the Franklin County Republican Party would appreciate a donation."
"Isn’t it great that Diebold and the county are going to do business?" he says Gallina asked him.
Damschroder said Gallina went on to tell him that he had met with Norm Cummings, a Blackwell campaign consultant, in Washington, D.C., to work out a deal: Diebold would cut the price of its electronic voting machines to $2,700 each if the company had a guarantee that it would receive all of the state’s business.
"Then Gallina tells me that he then wrote a check for $50,000 to Blackwell’s political interests."
Damschroder agreed that he made a mistake when he took the check.
"I should have thrown Mr. Gallina out of the building," he said yesterday. |
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