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The Blog for Monday, December 20, 2004

From the Blogosphere

    Florida stuff in the blogosphere, including this Kos Diary about "Jeb!" in 2008, and a Blog dedicated to Feenygate. The latter includes updates and links, including this December 16 piece in the Seminole Chronicle:
    Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year's contested presidential vote in Florida, to write software that could alter vote totals on touch-screen voting machines, the programmer said.

    Former computer programmer Clint Curtis made the claim Monday in sworn testimony to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 presidential election involving touch-screen voting in Ohio.

    In his testimony, Curtis said that Feeney, then a member of the Florida House of Representative, met with Curtis and other employees of Yang Enterprises, an Oviedo software company, and asked if the company could create a program that would allow a user to alter the vote totals while using the touch-screen machine. The program had to be written so that even the human-readable computer code would not show its illicit capabilities, Curtis recalled.

    Curtis said he wrote a prototype program for Feeney, and that he believed the program might not only be usable on touch-screen voting machines, which some counties - predominantly in South Florida - now use, but also on optical-scan machines, which most of the state's counties used in the 2004 elections.

    Feeney could not be reached for comment.
    There's much more.

    And there's this as well: "TheRoyalBushes: John "Jeb" Bush appoints radical judges" (concerning an issue we covered a while back in "Transparently Political Appointee").

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