Walden "Wally" O'Dell is the former chief executive officer and former chairman of the board of Diebold, a US-based security and financial products company. He was an active fundraiser for

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's re-election campaign and wrote in a fund-raising letter dated August 13, 2003, that he was committed "to helping

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deliver its

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to the President." His involvement with the campaign raised concerns that, as the CEO of the largest manufacturer of

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equipment, he would have been in a position to attempt to manipulate the results of the presidential election of 2004. In December 2005, O'Dell left the company amid a

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(SEC) investigation into

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at the company. O'Dell holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in

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from

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, and an M.B.A. from

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. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of

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Walden O'Dell's political donations
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Saint Louis University alumni Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni Diebold {{US-CEO-stub

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