Paper-trail advocate to air election rigging concerns

[MellowOne]

Paper-trail advocate to air election rigging concerns
By George Bennett
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_ne...

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Monday, January 23, 2006

Clint Curtis, a familiar name to those who follow election-stealing
allegations on the Internet, will get an official audience this week with the committee advising Palm Beach County on voting technology.Curtis is the Florida computer programmer who emerged in December 2004 at an Ohio forum and online with an affidavit claiming he had been an unwitting accomplice four years earlier in a Republican plot to rig touch-screen elections. His disputed story has found a receptive audience in Palm Beach County with some Democrats and foes of electronic voting. Curtis was a featured speaker at this month's county Democratic Party meeting and a participant last month in a demonstration outside the county elections office demanding a ballot "paper trail."

The protest took place before a meeting of the Elections Technology
Advisory Committee formed by Elections Supervisor Arthur Anderson. A member of that committee, Democratic activist Jack Sadow, has been trying since September to get the panel to listen to Curtis.
The committee voted Jan. 12 to let Curtis speak for 20 minutes at
Thursday's meeting about the vulnerabilities of paperless voting
systems.

Curtis, 47, was a programmer for Yang Enterprises Inc. of Oviedo in
2000. Tom Feeney now a Republican congressman, then the incoming
speaker of the Florida House was Yang's general counsel and its
local lobbyist. Curtis claims he took part in a meeting in September or October of 2000 with Yang officials and Feeney in which Feeney asked him to write a program that could alter electronic votes and be undetectable.

Curtis says he wrote the program believing Feeney wanted to detect
Democratic attempts to steal elections. But he says he was later
told by a Yang executive that the program was actually intended "to
control the vote in South Florida."Feeney flatly denies Curtis' story. His office wouldn't comment beyond that. Yang Enterprises also denies Curtis' claims.Through its lawyer, the company says it has never written elections software and that Curtis was never present at any meeting with its officials and Feeney.

Curtis admits he has no hard evidence to back up his claims. He
points to a lie-detector test he took last year that was
administered by Tim Robinson, a retired Florida Department of Law
Enforcement chief polygrapher, who confirmed that Curtis passed. The test was paid for by a Washington private investigator, Kevin Walsh. Walsh wouldn't say who hired him.

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[papau]

1. I like the idea of a paper trail! - As in my post at link below!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x410772

[lyonn]

2. Elections for Congress in Nov. and we still don't know if

we will have a paper trail? How sick is this? It is such a no brainer that you gotta wonder, and we here do, what the hell is wrong with the masses? They are zeroing in on sound bites such as "keeping us safe". Two Dems are voting for Alito because of the area of the country they are from and decided they will lose votes if they don't vote for Alito. That is why we are losing in every election. Democrats that have been elected do not speak out for what they must know is right. They, in fact, put their seal of approval on bush.

We go along to get along with Rove & Co. This is a sick country. With all the info out there and they still take the "easy" route and casually say that this pres. is keeping us safe is unbelievable. I feel like such a schmuck, that I can not convince more people of what is truly happening to our laws and country.

This coming election is critical. We want an honest vote and with only a computer to tell you how someone has voted without a backup for a recount, duh, sorry this is so obvious, we are doomed. I can tell on this site that so many are becoming defeatist, and I am trying hard not to fall into this reality. But, facts are facts. Alito get voted in will validate the Dems are done.

[MellowOne]

3. no, we don't know yet

I'm very surprised there's not more interest in this story, we may very well be doomed to be under Republican rule.