A south-central Kentucky man has pleaded

guilty in a vote-buying scheme dating back to the 2006 general

election.

The U.S. attorney's office for the Western District of Kentucky

said on Thursday that 53-year-old Gary M. Bartley of Tompkinsville

admitted conspiring to pay voters in the election in Monroe County,

accepting money to be used to pay voters and paying voters. He is

to be sentenced May 20th in Bowling Green.

Wanda Moore of Tompkinsville, who pleaded guilty in December to

buying votes and conspiring to buy votes in the 2006 Monroe County

general election, is to be sentenced March 25th in Bowling Green.