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Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes
Duke Machesne writes "In the year 2000, Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney hired programmer Clint Curtis, while he was working for NASA contractor Yang Enterprises, to write an undetectable vote flipping program which could 'control' the votes of electronic voting machines, according to Wayne Madsen's latest article for the Online Journal."
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/04/12/images/CC_Af fidavit_120604.pdf
---You, sir, are freakin' insane. You'd like to see the bloodbath that would probably ensue if it turned out to be true? You hate the results of the election so much that you'd like to find out that your republic had been destroyed?
The republic stands if the people stands, not if the government can "live". If it means a bloody removal of the offenders, God bless them.
---I desperately want not to believe this. As long as most of us have reasonable faith in our electoral process, we can get through pretty much anything. The alternative is probably not far short of civil war.
I have faith that the same families will get in to political positions, leech our money for pork and other inane things, and then get us to go with the next big crisis like the "War On *".
And when our civil rights degrade enough, people will care. We will fight, and many of us will die. Then again, our country's faith will be renewed, albeit with much less of a population.
Long live Titor
Why the concern about "want to believe this, want to believe that"? Why don't you consider the facts that are there. Fact 1: This guy could be lying. Fact 2: regardless of his thoughts, the election results do not make much sense. Take a look at my roomate's page. He's compiled a bit of data, from official sources (linked to from the page), that brings into question the results of the election. Real numbers. Scary, isn't it?
The dollar is falling; it will rise again.
Eventually, perhaps, when it has been devalued to the point to eliminate the trade deficit and when a fiscally responsible president comes into power again (Republicans need not apply--they love running up big deficits).
The economy is not failing. We are winning the war.
Geez. I thought people like you didn't believe in taking drugs.
Here's a lesson on tax cuts.
Not only is the "lesson" utter nonsense, its attribution to Kamerschen is as phony as your other "facts".
So I Googled around for Clint Curtis, the guy who is making these claims, and found the affidavit mentioned in the story. If anyone else is interested in reading more information on an article they didn't read... ;)
C _Affidavit_1 20604.pdf
a udprogram. htm
u dCode.zip
Non-linkified because I'm going home from work soon and I want to go there sooner.
the affidavit:
http://www.rawstory.com/images/pdfs/C
his website (basically a big rant with a link):
http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/
his vote changing program:
http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/votefr
code:
http://www.justaflyonthewall.com/VoteFra
I did some googling. This guy Clinton has a serious beef with Yang Enterprises...him and some lady name of Mavis Georgalis.
Some of it does look kinda fishy "in his favor".
Example: the FL dept. of transportation's inspector general's report on the Georgalis case:
http://www.dot.state.fl.us/inspectorgeneral/Report s/AnnualReport2003.pdf
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2002-2003
EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT - REPRESENTATIVE CASE EXAMPLES
Georgalis - This investigation was initiated based on a complaint against Mavis R. Georgalis by Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), a Florida corporation.
YEI provides information technology services and support under an eight-year (January 20, 1999 to January 20, 2007) and approximately eight million dollar contract for the Department, known as the Electronic Document Management System contract.
The investigation established that Georgalis received travel reimbursements from the Department based on false claims for lodging and meals already paid by YEI. It also disclosed Georgalis engaged in a pattern of misconduct, over several years, by accepting gifts and other gratuities from YEI. These gratuities included trips with YEI officials to Biloxi, Mississippi and Las Vegas, Nevada. Georgalis further created a conflict of interest by accepting gifts from another contractor whom she regulated. Lastly, it has been documented that Georgalis used her position and Department resources to seek other employment opportunities.
Summary of Findings/Resulting Actions
Mavis Georgalis resigned her position with the Florida Department of Transportation on April 1, 2002.
On March 6, 2003 Georgalis was charged with receipt of unlawful compensation (Section 838.016 F.S.) Georgalis surrendered to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office on March 12, 2003 and is awaiting a court date.
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So wait...Yang doesn't like a particular gov't official, so THEY admit to having bribed said official, official gets fired and charged (based on paperwork Yang submits?) and nothing happens to Yang which has connections to Jeb Bush and an FL congressman?
OK, that's...kinda funky. Doesn't mean Clinton isn't full of it of course.
If there is ANYTHING to this story, it looks like this guy Clinton got royally pissed at Yang, enough so to blow the secrecy off a Qui Tam action? Or did the secrecy period on the Qui Tam action already expire? "Qui Tam" whistleblower suits start out "in secret"...I oughta know, Bev and I filed one on Diebold back in Nov. of '03, secrecy wasn't lifted until just a couple months ago.
Damned if I know what's up here. I'm going to wait for more data.
Bev Harris is even more skeptical and has published this:
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Why the Feeney vote-rigging story sounds like disinformation
ABOUT DISINFORMATION: Like a good lie, it has elements of truth. Trouble is, the truth doesn't relate to the nuts and bolts of the story. For example in the Tom Feeney vote-manipulation story, people are documenting relationships between Tom Feeney and Yang, and between the writer of the story and other scandals, but so far the evidence presented does not back up the vote manipulation story itself.
DISINFORMATION IS DANGEROUS TO THE CLEAN VOTING MOVEMENT: Black Box Voting is finding real evidence consistent with fraud. We are even finding, in one of our investigations, evidence consistent with a systemic, or widespread breakdown in security, possibly exploited. Getting the facts is tedious, unexciting work, consisting of auditing and personal interviews, and it takes time. Many Americans want a magic bullet, a single shot that will blow the lid off everything at once.
That's risky. If the mainstream media continues to be bombarded with stories that sound credible, but aren't, when the real thing comes down the pike it will be ignored.
Whil
Curtis will be interviewed and information about what he says in front of the House Judicial Committee will be blogged at:
http://www.truthout.org/cblog.shtml
Someone had to do it.