Clint Curtis Running Against Alleged Former Vote Fraud Employer 
 Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Yeah, yeah, news travels slow in Ohio. But have you ever seen this?! We stumbled upon a video today (the fact that it's a video response to Ron Paul's New Hampshire Primary speech is actually a total coincidence, we swear) of a computer programmer testifying in court that he wrote a vote fraud software prototype for Congressman Tom Feeney in October of 2000 that rigs election ballots 51-49. This all went down during the time we were on hiatus from all-things-news-related...

The programmer, Clint Curtis, was working at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) in South Florida when - according to his affidavit - he was asked to develop this program for touch screen voting machines. When he protested that there was no way to make the program completely undetectable if analyzed, Curtis said he was told by his boss, "You don't understand, in order to get the contract we have to hide the manipulation in the [program's] source code. This program is needed to control the vote in South Florida."

Curtis says a coworker of his at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) was investigating various allegations against Feeney and YEI, and a few weeks after the coworker left him a voicemail saying he'd tracked the corruption "all the way to the top," he wound up dead with his arm slashed in a hotel room. Police ruled it a suicide.

Curtis and another coworker, Mavis Georgalis, had to file harassment complaints.

The BRAD BLOG, which has provided a lot of coverage on this topic, who coins Congressman Feeney as a "Jeb Bush crony," wrote in April that the Florida Ethics Commission - "where 6 of the 8 members of the panel are either Bush or Feeney appointees, or closely tied to one or both" - dismissed Curtis' allegations. The case was then said to be turned over to the FBI, but we can find nothing more on it and Feeney still has his seat in Congress. Clint Curtis passed a polygraph on his statements.

Curtis is now running for the FL-24 Congressional seat, against Tom Feeney himself - this time, as a Democrat.

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