Reply #11: Former SOS Mortham was the lobbyist for ESS & FL Assoc of Counties

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Can you spell 'conflict of interest'? Can you spell 'rigged elections'? Well good ol' Sandy is just the gal for the job. Former running mate of Jeb Bush, she had to bow out because of a money scandal while she was SOS. Well it seems she's done quiet well serving BushCo in her private life. I'm sure she's made a small fortune off of her dealings.



All of the big counties up for grabs, however, would soon go with touch-screens,and most of those would go with a machine made by an Omaha-based company called Election Systems & Software, or E.S.&S., which had the good political sense to hire Sandra Mortham, former Florida secretary of state and implementer of the ex-felon purge campaign by DBT, as its chief lobbyist in the state.

Big money was at stake - tens of millions of dollars - and so, tragically, the push for clean elections with new voting machines became a classic exercise in murky politics.

Shortly before signing on with E.S.&S., Mortham signed on as a lobbyist for the Florida Association of Counties(FAC).

On June 21, 2001,the association formally endorsed E.S.&S.'s iVotronic and began urging the state's undecided counties to buy it.

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