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In reply to the discussion: Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections [View all]NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. I love this story: Tom Feeney hired this programmer to write election fixing code in 2000...
Later on, in 2006, the code writer and witness in this clip, Clint Eugene Curtis, ran against Feeney.
Awkward!
Election fraud
Feeney's 2006 congressional opponent, Clint Curtis, has previously provided a sworn affidavit alleging that in October 2000, Feeney asked Curtis, then a computer programmer at Yang Enterprises, to design a computer program to falsify touch-screen voting results in Palm Beach County.[18][19] Curtis subsequently passed a polygraph test commissioned by a Washington, D.C. private investigator.[18] A Wired News story noted that Curtis had no direct knowledge of the vote counting software having been used in a public election.[20]
Feeney claimed that he has no recollection of even meeting Curtis; that he could not have engaged in such a scheme because Palm Beach County did not even consider obtaining touch screen machines until after the 2000 election; and that although Curtis wrote a book in the summer of 2004 accusing Feeney of a wide variety of misconduct, Curtis did not mention the alleged scheme to commit election fraud in the edition published prior to the 2004 election.[18]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Feeney#Election_fraud
Feeney's 2006 congressional opponent, Clint Curtis, has previously provided a sworn affidavit alleging that in October 2000, Feeney asked Curtis, then a computer programmer at Yang Enterprises, to design a computer program to falsify touch-screen voting results in Palm Beach County.[18][19] Curtis subsequently passed a polygraph test commissioned by a Washington, D.C. private investigator.[18] A Wired News story noted that Curtis had no direct knowledge of the vote counting software having been used in a public election.[20]
Feeney claimed that he has no recollection of even meeting Curtis; that he could not have engaged in such a scheme because Palm Beach County did not even consider obtaining touch screen machines until after the 2000 election; and that although Curtis wrote a book in the summer of 2004 accusing Feeney of a wide variety of misconduct, Curtis did not mention the alleged scheme to commit election fraud in the edition published prior to the 2004 election.[18]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Feeney#Election_fraud
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I love this story: Tom Feeney hired this programmer to write election fixing code in 2000...
NYC_SKP
Jun 2013
#1
Interesting story. It would be much more interesting if the elected officials would do something.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#3
Video Published on YouTube on Apr 18, 2011 . I don't remember this being on the news.
Tx4obama
Jun 2013
#5
This & more info's been out there, but ignored by most DU'er's as well as the corp. media
snot
Jun 2013
#50
Those were the days when we thought we could get our legislators to act responsibly and
Cleita
Jun 2013
#20
In Germany, if there is a difference of more than 1% b/w the actual vote and the exit polls they
Dustlawyer
Jun 2013
#13
Oh hell no. You realize the election would never be held, right? There would be 47 different distros
jtuck004
Jun 2013
#36
wouldn't matter, as long as they printed a voter verifiable ballot
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
Jun 2013
#53
Well, this is going to bring up some old mixed memories, thought I would be the first to post....
Rebellious Republican
Jun 2013
#15
This needs to go viral, though I knew it all along, the sheeple just don't want to believe it.
joanbarnes
Jun 2013
#54