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Name :   Rachel Garner
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Post Date :   9/30/2005

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Comment :  2]  Republican Senator Chuck Hagel has ties to the largest voting machine  
company, Election Systems & Software (ES&S)  located in Omaha, Nebraska.  ES&S was the ONLY company whose machines counted Hagel's votes when he ran for election in 1996 and 2002.
 ES&S counts approximately 60 percent of all votes cast in the United States.
According to the Omaha World-Herald which is also a beneficial owner of  
ES&S, Hagel was CEO of American Information Systems, now called ES&S, from November 1993 through June 2, 1994. He was Chairman from July 1992 until March 15 1995.  

Hagel still owns up to $5 million in the ES&S parent company, McCarthy Group.  He was required to disclose these positions on his FEC Personal Disclosure statements, but he did not.  

This is clearly a potential conflict of interest.