Programmer Built Vote-Rigging Demo for Florida Politician

Syre writes "therawstory reports that a programmer named Clinton Curtis says in a sworn affidavit (mirror) that he developed prototype vote-rigging software at the request of then-Florida state representative Tom Feeney. The affidavit has been turned over to the House Judiciary Committee, of which Feeney is now a member. Should we call for inspection and disassembly of all the voting machine code to see if it contains any of these secret vote tampering functions he was asked to include in his prototype?" A follow-up interview is available. A point to emphasize: he's not making any claims of actual fraud occurring in the Florida elections.

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Re:Don't get your panties in a twist too fast

[cshark]

I really want this to be true. I want to see proof that the vote in south Florida was tampered with so that I could tell all these sanctimonious assholes, "I told you so." But this whole thing smacks of an angry older programmer trying to get even with his former employer. In a case like that, there's no telling how true these statements are, or how reliable they are. Now if they dissected a voting machine in south Florida, and it had these invisible buttons, that would be another issue entirely. But I would like to see more proof before looking like an idiot.

Only blind man can't see fraud in US election

[leftie]

Kerry was up by 5 points in the exit polls on election day. The exit polls were incredibly accurate predictors of final results in states without black box machines. In states with black box machines, every single state showed huge variance with the exit polls, and every single variance benefitted Bush.

It's either million to one or billion to one odds, depending on the study) against the way the exit polls variances happened being a coincidence.