Sarasoto Vote Snafu Figure Involved In Bribe Scandal

[kpete]

WORLD EXCLUSIVE
NOV 15 2006

Gary L.Greenhalgh, the election company executive responsible for the touch-screen electronic voting machines in Sarasota County which failed to register fully one of every seven votes cast in last week’s hotly-contested race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris, has a checkered past, the MadCowMorningNews has learned exclusively, including involvement in election bribery scandals.

The most recent rocked voters in North Carolina in 1999, and resulted in the supervisor of elections in North Carolina's Mecklenburg County being sent to federal prison for taking over $130,000 in payoffs from MicroVote, the election company where Greenhalgh was national sales director.

More recently, as vice president of Election Software & Services (ES&S), Greenhalgh was instrumental, first success of an all-out push in 2001 by then newly-elected Sarasota County election supervisor Kathy Dent to persuade Sarasota County to pay more than four million dollars for touch-screen electronic voting machines; and then as the project manager overseeing their installation.

Greenhalgh's Ivotronic machines allegedly failed to register over 18,000 votes in Sarasota County last week; his touch screen machines were almost entirely responsible for the massive 13% undercount of votes which marred the closest Congressional contest in the country, which pitted Republican Vern Buchanan against Democrat Christine Jennings.

more at:
http://www.madcowprod.com/11152006.html

[cyclezealot]

1. anyone check out the vote totals

So is the winner still being contested or vote totals finalized.

[The Count]

3. The Florida standard "by 300 something votes...." uh-huh...

[texpatriot2004]

2. K & R for Transparent Democracy nm

[texpatriot2004]

4. Those "undervotes" there is something wrong there. They would

have you believe that 1 in 6 voters chose not to cast a vote in this "hotly contested" race...rubbish!

Same nonsense they pulled in 2004.

[Pab Sungenis]

5. Once again, the answer is simple.

HEARINGS on election irregularities.
STUDY how every other democracy manages to use paper ballots and not have chaos.
LEGISLATION to get rid of the black boxes.

Three simple steps.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

6. the bribing was done by Ed O'Day of United American Election Supply Co

As much as I don't like Microvote, the bribing of the Mecklenburg County North Carolina
election director was done by an independent sales rep, Ed O'Day.

Ed O'Day is probably still selling voting machines, but not in North Carolina.

It is important for us to know that the voting machine companies can keep their hands "clean"
or avoid being caught up in bribery scandals by having "independent representatives" sell their goods.
(Let them do the bribing). There are legitimate reasons for them using "representatives" too, but
I point out the negative side out of necessity.

Like the way Diebold is sold by LHS in Connecticut, and voters are misled into thinking they
aren't voting on Diebold optical scanners.

So you can see how voting machine companies can keep themselves removed from the dirt
this way.

Here is some of what I have posted about the bribery of a NC
election director, at my website:

A voting machine salesman and repairman admitted earlier this week that
they gave Culp more than $134,000 since 1990 in bribes and kickbacks as
rewards for county business. Ed O'Day, 63, of Columbia, S.C., and Gene
Barnes, 64, of Stuarts Draft, Va., entered guilty pleas Tuesday.
They and Culp will be sentenced later this summer, the U.S. Attorney's
Office said.

Culp pleaded guilty to accepting 122 bribes from O'Day and Barnes and
to three counts of mail fraud stemming from his operation of the Mecklenburg
Elections Tabulation Service, which provided news organizations with
unofficial election night results. He allegedly double-billed the county and
news outlets, pocketing $21,131 between December 1994, and January 1998.

O'Day is president of United American Election Supply Co. and was also
an independent sales representative for MicroVote of Indianapolis. He sold
Mecklenburg County more than $6 million in voting machines since 1994.
Barnes, who serviced the county's voting machines for more than 30
years, raised his prices so Culp could get a kickback of $25 per machine
repaired, authorities alleged.
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2. Ex-Meck official indicted (more on Culp)

Former Mecklenburg County Elections Supervisor Bill Culp was indicted by a federal grand jury July 7 on charges that he accepted more than $134,000 in kickbacks and bribes from a voting machine repairman and a salesman who won millions in county contracts. The indictment follows a six-month FBI investigation.

Federal sources say Culp and the two others charged -- Ed O'Day, president of Columbia-based United American Election Supply Co. and Gene Barnes, a self-employed repairman from Stuarts Draft, Va. -- will receive summonses and likely make their first court appearance this month. Culp retired in February as elections director after 28 years. http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/1998/07/13/weekinbiz.html

I have alot more about that case here:

http://www.ncvoter.net/briberyNC.html

[philb]

7. Lots of touch screen switching to Blank(undervotes) reported in Florida, Ohio, Calif, in 2004

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=457470&mesg_id=457470

Lots of cases of touch screen switching to blank in Palm Beach, Broward, Dade counties in Florida in 2004
and also in Franklin Co. Ohio, Mahoning Co Ohio, Orange Co. California, & etc.

[Wilms]

8. K&R n/t