Voting Machine Company Salesman Becomes Election Director in Texas

[TrogL]

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/voting-machine.html

A former software sales manager for Election Systems & Software, the largest voting machine company in the country, has been named county elections administrator for Fort Bend County in Texas.

According to a local news report, John Oldham had been regional sales manager, account manager and Illinois state manager for ES&S, which is based in Nebraska. More recently he had been an independent contractor for both ES&S and various election jurisdictions.

Two more links from the article.

http://www.fortbendnow.com/pages/full_story?article-Former-Software-Sales-Manager-Named-County-Elections-Administrator%20=&page_label=home&id=80119&widget=push&instance=home_news_bullets&open=&

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/05/former_diebold_.html

[Gman]

1. Fort Bend County = Tom Delay's old district

now represented by Democrat Nick Lampson, all around good guy.

[tbyg52]

7. >>all around good guy

In what sense? I'm sure he's personally a nice guy, and maybe he's voting as progressive as he thinks he can (which is hardly at all), but at the moment he's a Blue Dog, which by me is "almost Republican." Not that virtually anybody doesn't beat DeLay.....

[robinlynne]

2. just like san diego.

[Fly by night]

3. I'm sure lots of former ES&S salesmen are looking for work.

The company fired lots of its sales force in 2006, after they had delivered lucrative contracts from Kool-aid poisoned election officials but (we are told) before ES&S paid them their sales bonuses.

I would love to find a few disgruntled former ES&S salesmen who might want to tell us all "what (really) happened".

[Wilms]

4. Interesting post. Thanks. n/t

[Fly by night]

5. Thanks. The company also refuses to tell callers where those salesmen can be reached.

Now that's not being very polite, is it?

[Stevepol]

6. K&R. Let's get this to the greatest page. One more Rec.

[tbyg52]

8. Right here!

:kick:

[ananda]

9. Ouch!

Fort Bend.. where people are truly bent
by the rightwing hate machine.

[tbyg52]

10. >>where people are truly bent

BOHICA!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

11. thats a switch, usually its the other way around

I would complain if he went from election official to voting machine salesman.

This is a reversal.