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Blogged 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

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 (c) 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.

For the complete report, see the Portland IMC story of the same name

(the Brad Blog is currently overwhelmed).