e-Vote Manipulation Programmer Comes Forward

Still fending off voracious, time-eating monsters that kept me from commenting on our troops giving Rummy some much-needed sass and Bush's philandering, mob-connected nominee for the Department of Homeland Security but I just had to pop in a note to divert your attention to Florida.

Bubbling up through the blogosphere is a story that every e-voting Luddite warned us about. Clinton Curtis, a programmer for Yang Enterprises, signed an affadavit alleging that he was instructed by Republican state representative Tom Feeney to develop a program that could alter vote tabluation without detection. The program needed to be touch-screen capable and remain hidden even if the source code was inspected. Curtis developed and delivered a prototype supposedly believing Feeney wanted to know to detect if Democrats tried something. He later learned from his employer that his software might be used to control the vote in Florida.

The linked article on the Blue Lemur has a few more links which includes a PDF of the affadavit.

So still keep one eye on Ohio as that plays out but point your other one down to Florida.