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Article: ES&S official left company in May, Ireland gave man an award Thursday for voting innovation
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- October 26, 2008
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Staff writer
On Thursday, Secretary of State Betty Ireland defended her
selection of touch-screen voting machines by Election Systems &
Software, after several voters complained the machines were
switching their votes from Democrats to Republicans.
That same day, during a ceremony at the Capitol, Ireland
presented a special award to Gary Lee Greenhalgh, the ES&S vice
president who sold Ireland on the machines.
Ireland called Greenhalgh "a pioneer in the use of technology in
the election process."
But Greenhalgh left the company mysteriously in May, and neither
he nor company officials will say why.
And while Ireland praises both Greenhalgh and his former
employer, other states have rejected ...