Geraldine's
Voting System Is Rigged
RECEIVED Mon., June 30, 2008
Dear Austin Chronicle,
On June 25, computer experts demonstrated vote flipping to the Texas House Committee on Elections Interim hearing about the security of electronic voting systems.
One expert was whistle-blower Clint Curtis, a computer programmer from Florida. He designed vote-flipping software at the request of Tom Feeney (now a U.S. congressman) for Yang Enterprises in 2000. He believed the program would be used to prevent election fraud. He later learned that it was to be used to “control the vote in South Florida.”
Included in a press packet from VoteRescue is an affidavit dated December 2004 from Curtis: www.bradblog.com/Docs/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf. He describes how he designed ways to program electronic voting machines to alter the voter’s intent.
Curtis writes, “In the vote fraud prototype that I created things were not what they seemed. Hidden on the screen were invisible buttons. A person with knowledge of the locations of those invisible buttons could use them to alter the votes of any candidate listed.”
Vote totals could be altered to ensure that the selected candidate would lead the race by 51% to 49%.
Curtis continued, “No amount of testing or simulations would expose the fraud as its activation and process is completely invisible to everyone except the person programming the vote fraud routine.”
All electronic voting machines carry this risk: touch screens, optical scanners, and Hart InterCivic’s e-Slate with button controls used in Travis County.
Electronic voting machines are a severe threat to democracy, and should be immediately banned from use. The most secure voting system is paper ballots, counted by we the citizens, in public view, with totals posted at the precinct.
How can we “vote the bums out,” when the system is rigged? Use your outrage by contacting city, county, and state officials, and tell them you demand hand-counted paper ballots, now!
On June 25, computer experts demonstrated vote flipping to the Texas House Committee on Elections Interim hearing about the security of electronic voting systems.
One expert was whistle-blower Clint Curtis, a computer programmer from Florida. He designed vote-flipping software at the request of Tom Feeney (now a U.S. congressman) for Yang Enterprises in 2000. He believed the program would be used to prevent election fraud. He later learned that it was to be used to “control the vote in South Florida.”
Included in a press packet from VoteRescue is an affidavit dated December 2004 from Curtis: www.bradblog.com/Docs/CC_Affidavit_120604.pdf. He describes how he designed ways to program electronic voting machines to alter the voter’s intent.
Curtis writes, “In the vote fraud prototype that I created things were not what they seemed. Hidden on the screen were invisible buttons. A person with knowledge of the locations of those invisible buttons could use them to alter the votes of any candidate listed.”
Vote totals could be altered to ensure that the selected candidate would lead the race by 51% to 49%.
Curtis continued, “No amount of testing or simulations would expose the fraud as its activation and process is completely invisible to everyone except the person programming the vote fraud routine.”
All electronic voting machines carry this risk: touch screens, optical scanners, and Hart InterCivic’s e-Slate with button controls used in Travis County.
Electronic voting machines are a severe threat to democracy, and should be immediately banned from use. The most secure voting system is paper ballots, counted by we the citizens, in public view, with totals posted at the precinct.
How can we “vote the bums out,” when the system is rigged? Use your outrage by contacting city, county, and state officials, and tell them you demand hand-counted paper ballots, now!
Jenny Clark
VoteRescue volunteer
VoteRescue volunteer
