This Report Blows the Lid Off of E-Voting Manipulation in South Florida

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This may be a red herring (or not) as the corruption was nationwide and involved

the various machine makers and seemed to be present since the early days of some

of these companies.

 

 

 

 

 

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This Report Blows the Lid Off of E-Voting Manipulation in South Florida

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by Brad on 12/6/2004 @ 10:57am PT...

 

WHISTLEBLOWER AFFIDAVIT: Programmer Built Vote Rigging Prototype at

Republican Congressman's Request!

CLAIM: Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL) Asked Company to Create E-Vote Fraud

Software!

*** A BRAD BLOG EXCLUSIVE! PLEASE CREDIT! ***

 

In stunning revelations set to rock the vote from Tallahassee to

Capitol Hill -- and perhaps even a bit further up Pennsylvania Avenue

-- a Florida computer programmer has now made remarkable claims in a

detailed sworn affidavit, signed this morning and obtained exclusively

by The BRAD BLOG!

 

- Affidavit in .PDF format - (Generously hosted by Raw Story!)

 

The programmer claims that he designed and built a " vote rigging "

software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S.

Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional

District.

 

Clint Curtis, 46, claims that he built the software for Feeney in 2000

while working at a sofware design and engineering company in Oviedo,

Florida (Feeney's home district).

 

Curtis, in his affidavit, says that as technical advisor and

programmer at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) he was present at company

meetings where Feeney was present " on at least a dozen occasions " .

 

Feeney, who had run in 1994 as Jeb Bush's running-mate in his initial

unsuccessful bid for Florida Governor, was serving as both corporate

counsel and registered lobbyist for YEI during the period that Curtis

worked at the company. Feeney was also concurrently serving as a

Florida state congressman while performing those services for YEI.

Feeney would eventually become Speaker of the Florida House before

being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He is now

a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

 

At an October 2000 meeting with Feeney, according to the affidavit and

BRAD BLOG interviews with Curtis over the past three days, Feeney

inquired whether the company could build a " vote fraud software

prototype " .

 

At least three YEI employees are said to have been present at that

meeting; Curtis, company owner, Mrs. Li Woan Yang, and her executive

secretary, Mike Cohen. Two other YEI employees may have come in and

out at different points of the meeting according to Curtis.

 

Curtis says that Feeney " was very specific in the design and

specifications required for this program. "

 

" He detailed, in his own words, that; (a) the program needed to be

touch-screen capable (b) the user should be able to trigger the

program without any additional equipment © the programming to

accomplish this needed to stay hidden even if the source code was

inspected. "

 

Though there was no problem with the first two requirements, Curtis

explained to the Congressman that it would be " virtually impossible to

hide such code written to change the voting results if anyone is able

to review the uncompiled source code "

 

Nonetheless, he was asked at the meeting by Mrs. Yang to build the

prototype anyway.

 

Curtis, " a life-long Republican " at the time, claims that it was his

initial belief that Feeney's interest was in trying to stop Democrats

from using " such a program to steal an election " . Curtis had assumed

that Feeney, " wanted to be able to detect and prevent that if it

occurred. "

 

Upon delivery of the software design and documentation on CD to Mrs.

Yang, Curtis again explained to her that it would be impossible to

hide routines created to manipulate the vote if anybody would be able

to inspect the precompiled source code.

 

Mrs. Yang then told him, " You don't understand, in order to get the

contract we have to hide the manipulation in the source code. This

program is needed to control the vote in South Florida. " [emphasis in

affidavit]

 

Mrs. Yang then took the CD containing the software from Curtis,

reportedly for later delivery to Feeney.

 

In other meetings with Feeny prior to the 2000 elections, it became

clear to Curtis that Feeney had plans to suppress the vote in strong

Democratic precincts. In the affidavit, Curtis claims that in those

meetings Feeney had " bragged that he had already implemented

'exclusion lists' to reduce the 'black vote'. " Feeney also mentioned

that " proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the

black vote by as much as 25%. "

 

Curtis says that he submitted his resignation to YEI effective

December 2000, but stayed on until they had found someone to replace

him in February of 2001. He eventually became employed by the Florida

Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) after leaving YEI.

 

But the scandals didn't stop there.

 

In May of 2001, while at FDOT, Curtis and another FDOT employee, Mavis

Georgalis, discovered and then reported several allegations to the

Inspector General at FDOT concerning over-billing by YEI -- who had

been an FDOT contractor -- and software that was never delivered by

the company. Allegations also included the employment of a suspected

illegal alien, Mr. Hai Lin Nee, who worked as YEI's " quality control "

manager.

 

Both Curtis and Georgalis were reportedly harassed after filing their

complaints about malfeasance at YEI and pressure mounted on the FDOT

-- purportedly from the powerful Feeney who was still working with YEI

-- to have them both fired.

 

In November 2001, after Curtis filed his complaints at FDOT, both he

and Georgalis' were subsequently sued by YEI " in retaliation " for

their complaints against the company. The charge was " theft of

intellectual property " , which Curtis has catagorized as " ridiculous "

in interviews, because the " intellectual property " in question was, in

fact, software that FDOT had long ago paid YEI to develop for them.

 

YEI was represented in the lawsuit by Congressman Feeney's law firm.

 

When the two had sought help from FDOT in fighting YEI's suit against

them, they were told that FDOT couldn't help them because FDOT had not

been named in the suit.

 

After several rounds of court battles, Georgalis was finally

successful in having FDOT added to the suit as a third co-defendant.

The suit was originally filed in Seminole County, but moved to Leon

County upon the addition of FDOT.

 

In April of 2002 -- on the very same day -- Curtis and Georgalis were

both fired by FDOT without explanation.

 

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported extensively in 2002 on the

case. They reported at the time that Curtis had written to the

Inspector General at FDOT to inquire why no investigation had yet been

made into YEI. As well, Curtis had contacted the Florida Bar, since

Feeney was a member, to inform them that " Feeney has used his position

to promote the profits of Yang Enterprises, from whom he received

compensation under the guise of lobbyist and attorney. "

 

According to The Orlando Sentinel in 2001, of 160 Florida congressmen,

Feeney was the only known registered lobbyist. He would later be

cleared of all ethics violations brought against him in the Florida

house on these matters by the Ethics Committee which included four

Republicans appointed to the committee by Feeney. Curtis was never

interviewed by the Ethics Committee concerning his allegations.

 

After Curtis and Georgalis were fired by FDOT, each attempted to file

" Whistleblower Suits " in the state of Florida. Georgalis' suit was

successful and FDOT was eventually ordered, after lengthy court

battles, to reinstate her with full back-pay by the circuit court.

Curtis' suit was not successful due to having missed the filing

deadline for the suit.

 

That suit, filed over three years ago, is still pending. The reason,

explained Curtis, is that YEI has since avoided all defendants

attempts to depose company employees in the case.

 

By May of 2002, the FDOT had finally taken up the investigation into

malfeasance by YEI.

 

In one particularly chilling paragraph in the affidavit, Curtis

explains what became of Raymond Lemme, the inspector at FDOT who was

said to be pursing the allegations against YEI, Tom Feeney and the

other reported matters:

 

" n June of 2003, he told me that he had tracked the corruption 'all

the way to the top' and that the story would break in the next few

weeks and I would be satisfied with the results. A few weeks later, on

July 1st, Mr. Lemme was found dead with his arm slashed in a hotel

room in Valdosta, Georgia. "

The death was ruled a suicide by the Valdosta Police. The BRAD BLOG

has obtained and is currently reviewing many official documents

related to Mr. Lemme's death.

Mr. Hai Lin Nee, " the ilegal alien " who had worked at YEI and was

reported by Curtis, was arrested in March of 2004 on espionage charges

which included " shipping radar guidance system chips for Hellfire

Anti-Tank Missiles to a company in Communist China. "

Curtis discussed in detail, during our interviews, Mr. Nee having

placed " wiretapping modules " into software code created by the

company. The secret " wiretapping modules " , Curtis claims, were to

download information from programs built by YEI for contractors, and

then either copy or send that information via Email back to YEI. Such

software, Curtis claims, was created for companies such as NASA with

whom YEI held substantial contracts.

According to both the Curtis affidavit and email dated November 22,

2004 obtained by The BRAD BLOG, YEI is currently under investigation

by the FBI.

That information was sent to Curtis after he had attempted on several

occassions to notify law enforcement authorities of his seemingly

remarkable story of espionage, possible vote tampering and other

ethical concerns.

In July of this year, in an email we've reviewed which purports to be

from a current YEI employee whose name we are withholding, Curtis was

sent the following message in regard to a book that the employee had

learned Curtis was working on:

They know about the book. You should not have sent it to a bush

supporter. They are going crazy...like they weren't after you already.

So I get to warn you AGAIN. They will do everything thwey [sic] can to

keep it from getting published. They are also going to try to take you

out again. Don't be alone. They specifically want to limit casualities

to just you. As long as they can't catch you alone they won't touch

you. You are such a loser........

Moi

In what he describes as " an attempt to get this story out there " ,

Curtis told part of the tale on a website, www.justaflyonthewall.com

where he has changed the names of some of the specific parties

involved. (e.g. " Wong " is substituted for " Yang " on the site)

Additional charges by Curtis also include that databases and

information were routinely sent by Mrs. Yang to her brother in China

who, Yang had told Curtis on one occasion, had previously been

deported for " being a spy " . The BRAD BLOG has not yet been able to

confirm the espionage charges concerning Mrs. Yang's brother.

Curtis' affidavit is being turned over this afternoon to staffers at

the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. An investigation into Curtis'

story is pending.

While we've been working on this story for several days in order to

get it right, we had hoped to hold it a bit longer to confirm a few

more of the details. As well, we had hoped to allow the Judiciary

Committee and others time to comment before making this story widely

available.

However, as of late Sunday night, Curtis' story has been reported

elsewhere on the Internet by Wayne Madsen. His detailed account

references an older, very short affidavit that Curtis had made in

regards to the information contained in a self-published book on some

of these matters.

While Madsen's article was independently researched and reported --

and offers some very good detail in relation to Curtis, YEI, FDOT and

Feeney, much of which that we can confirm -- he then ties those

stories to a much grander CIA/Bush family conspiracy.

While we have looked somewhat cursorily over the last several weeks

into some of the larger matters which Madsen discusses, and has been

reporting on for some time, we cannot confirm any of those grander

details as playing any part in this particular story. While his claims

may be true, The BRAD BLOG has seen no evidence to support them as

being related to the Curtis story at this time.

Frankly, we find the information related in Curtis' sworn affidavit,

and via our interviews with him and others directly related to his

story to be rather stunning as is, and we will stand by our reporting

of those matters at this time.

Given the importance of the many allegations in his story if they are

true -- and we have so far been unable to identify any major holes or

discrepancies in his information -- we thought it necessary to release

the full details contained in this sworn affidavit immediately so that

Curtis' story and the explosive allegations contained therein could be

more accurately assessed.

DEVELOPING...HARD...

posted Monday, 6 December 2004