Gary L. Greenhalgh, VP ES&S involved in bribery scam

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http://www.madcowprod.com/ apologies if already posted

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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.

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Greenhalgh's long service in the election industry, we have learned, stretches all the way back to one of the earliest election companies, Shoup Electronics, working for company founder Ransom Shoup, who was himself convicted of bribery and sent to federal prison in 1979.

BTW there is a Jane Greenhalgh who works for ES&S....

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1. Jane Greenhalgh is listed as a "representative" of ES&S

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2006/05/16/news/news23.prt

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Representatives of Electronic Systems & Software of Omaha, Neb., which supplied the new voting hardware, planned to be in New Bloomfield to answer questions all day Monday and to visit various polling places throughout the day today.

Jane Greenhalgh of ES&S outlined some of the most common issues voters have had with computerized voting in other parts of the country during Monday’s training.

Hitting the button for a write-in vote by accident or voting for the wrong candidate is "always a big panic," Greenhalgh said, but can be easily corrected.

Her advice was, "Take your time. Don’t let the voter rush you. Let the voter wait a moment. They’re only there for a few minutes."

Blind voters also are a concern at some precincts, and Greenhalgh had answers for poll workers in those circumstances.

While headsets are available to allow visually impaired voters to hear the list of candidates and vote with a diamond-shaped button or with Braille, Greenhalgh told workers, "Don’t assume they want to use this machine. They’ve been getting assistance from a friend or relative to vote all these years. They may just want that person to assist them using the visual prompts."