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Programmer Claims he was Paid to Rig Votes

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the will-of-the-people dept.

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."

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  1. Ok by Apreche · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Like many others I would like to believe this. And if its true I would like to utilize this information in court to try to make something happen.

    But is there really enough evidence to hold this up? I don't see this article citing any sources. And towards the end it starts to sound more like a crazy conspiracy theory than something real.

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  2. wow, is this the next Oliver Stone screenplay? by imsmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem with this story is that it is too fantastic. Even if it were true, the depth of the corruption is so widespread, among so many high-profile characters and big power families, that it requires a suspension of disbelief on the part of the reader. Security through incredulity, anyone?

    Conspiracy theorists of the world unite.

  3. Basic fact checking, thanks to the Internet by mike_lynn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, reading through his deposition, he mentions on item 12 a full name: Raymond Lemme. He calls Raymond the Inspector General of the Florida Department of Transportation.

    According to the FDOT website (http://www.dot.state.fl.us/inspectorgeneral/) and archive.org, Cecil T. Bragg, Jr., CPA has been the IG since at least 2001 up until the present.

    The only place that I could see Lemme's name mentioned anywhere was in http://www.dot.state.fl.us/businessmodel/pdf/Augus t%202003.pdf, where he was mentioned as part of the fraud investigation squad.

    Wayne Leaders, mentioned as an investigator for NASA, shows up as a 'Special Agent' in Jan 2003 in www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html, complete with a phone number you can reach him at (poor guy).

    More details here:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20030831121943/h ttp://w ww.n-jcenter.com/special/feeney.htm

    Which eventually leads to the real story:
    http://web.archive.org/web/20021030045304/ www.n-jc enter.com/2002/Jun/9/STAT001.htm

    Curtis is one fcked up little dude.