The Washington Post called Hagel's 1996 win "the major Republican upset in the November election." Hagel swept all three congressional districts, becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska in 24 years. "He won counties up and down the politically diverse Platte River Valley and topped it off with victories in Omaha and Lincoln," reported the Hastings Tribune.
What the media didn't report is that Hagel's job, until two weeks before he announced his run for Senate, was running the voting machine company whose machines would count his votes...
Six years later, when asked about his ownership of ES&S by Lincoln's Channel 8 TV News, Hagel said he had sold that stock. If so, the stock he says he sold was never listed as one that he'd owned.
This is not a gray area. This is lying. Hagel's failure to disclose his financial relationship with the company was not brought to the attention of the public, and this was a material omission.
Black Box Voting
by Bev Harris
Sara 
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." - Harry Truman
