[Fwd: Programmer swears he was asked to write vote-rigging program by Tom Feeney]

[Neil Schneider]

Is this the modern equivelent to Watergate? This story is starting to
show up on various web sites. If it turns out to be true it could have
explosive ramificatons.

<http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html>

Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for
"vote switching" software

By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer

[Excerpt]

December 6, 2004—The manipulation of computer voting machines in the
recent presidential election and the funding of programmers who were
involved in the operation are tied to an intricate web of shady
off-shore financial trusts and companies, shady espionage operatives,
Republican Party politicians close to the Bush family, and National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) contract vehicles.

An exhaustive investigation has turned up a link between current
Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney, a customized
Windows-based program to suppress Democratic votes on touch screen
voting machines, a Florida computer services company with whom Feeney
worked as a general counsel and registered lobbyist while he was
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and top level
officials of the Bush administration.

According to a notarized affidavit signed by Clint Curtis, while he
was employed by the NASA Kennedy Space Center contractor, Yang
Enterprises, Inc., during 2000, Feeney solicited him to write a
program to "control the vote." At the time, Curtis was of the opinion
that the program was to be used for preventing fraud in the in the
2002 election in Palm Beach County, Florida. His mind was changed,
however, when the true intentions of Feeney became clear: the computer
program was going to be used to suppress the Democratic vote in
counties with large Democratic registrations.

According to Curtis, Feeney and other top brass at Yang Enterprises, a
company located in a three-story building in Oviedo, Florida, wanted
the prototype written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) in Microsoft Windows
and the end-product designed to be portable across different
Unix-based vote tabulation systems and to be "undetectable" to voters
and election supervisors.

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