{"id":3807,"date":"2006-11-17T16:35:49","date_gmt":"2006-11-18T00:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2006-11-20T14:10:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T22:10:47","slug":"sarasota-floridas-election-supervisor-kathy-dent-cozies-up-with-ess-shady-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3807","title":{"rendered":"Sarasota Florida’s Election Supervisor Kathy Dent Cozies Up With ES&S’s Shady Vice-President"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a nifty and well-sourced bit of investigative journalism that makes The BRAD BLOG’s<\/a> muckracking heart go pitter-patter, an outfit known as Madcow Morning News<\/i> (we wish they were called Washington Post<\/i>) filed a peach of an expos\u00e9<\/a> last Wednesday on Sarasota County’s Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent, and Gary L. Greenhalgh, the ES&S voting machine company Vice-President with the questionable past, who appears to have serviced her.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The detailed reporting underscores our previous call for Dent to resign<\/a> in light of her egregious failures<\/a> in Florida’s 13th district U.S. House race, where the voters are still paying the price. Please do yourself a favor and read the report in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few Dent money shots:<\/p>\n

Ironically, while lobbying Sarasota County Commissioners in a successful campaign to spend millions on new touch screen electronic voting machines in 2001, one of Dent’s primary arguments<\/a> was that the new machines would lower the rate of uncounted votes, which then stood at barely one percent, versus the 13% undervote in the election last week.<\/p>\n

“I do think we’re going to see those numbers drop,” Dent told Commissioners. “We’re looking more for accuracy and the confidence that the voters have in the system.”<\/p><\/div>\n

And this ironic plum from Greelhalgh — whom Madcow<\/i> reports as regularly being in perilously close proximity to those convicted of bribery and other kickbacks to elections officials — from back in 1985:<\/p>\n

“The problem with computer-assisted voting systems is that they centralize the opportunity for fraud,” Greenhalgh said, in a July 29, 1985 story in the New York Times. <\/p>\n

“There is a massive potential for problems.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Reported the Times: “Mr. Greenhalgh said that while lever-type voting machines could have their counts rigged only machine by machine, counting votes by computer was done at one central site in most counties.”<\/p><\/div>\n

(Hat-tip to BRAD BLOG<\/a> perennial “Old Turk”<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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