always be grateful to you and what you have done to help the truth get out, and to bring these criminals to justice. I just hope that justice really happens in my lifetime.
There is no issue in my lifetime that so motivated me to try to do something about it... so early on, as the president of a tiny computer services company in N. Florida... I started sending out emails to everyone I knew, warning them about what a terrible idea computer voting is... and especially with no paper trail. I wrote to every news reporter that I could find, and to every so called computer expert who would "talk" to me.
Then my husband and I watched the OHIO returns for the first BushCo election, and were stunned to see in the space of two seconds that the numbers SWITCHED from Kerry who was well in the lead, to Bush who started getting those numbers instead. I fell out of my chair and must have started kicking the furniture because my foot was bruised the next day.
Shortly after the Help America Vote Act passed, which was geared towards the disabled, Diebold gave the National Federation of the Blind a million $ donation. NFB director Jim Dickson filed lawsuits in several states to insure that computerized voting was kept in place. I did a lot of battle with Dickson. I insisted that only ONE machine for the blind needed to be available at voting sites, and that it need not be computerized.
Some of the people we worked with to change the way voting is conducted are as follows (although, much to my dismay, those affiliated with computer science departments fudged on the most important stipulations at the last moment. I think it may have had something to do with funding of their departments:
Rebecca Mercuri of Notable Software; Chuck Herrin; Brandon Adams; D. Wallach of Rice University; Dr. David Dill of Stanford; Peter G. Neuman of csl.sri.com; Avi Rubin from cs.jhu.edu; Barbara Simons of ACM; Robert Kibrick of Verifiable Voting.org;Kim Alexander, President of the California Voter Foundation; Wayne Madsen (formerly with the NSA and an expert on computer security issues); Mike Hout from Berkeley; Beverly Harris of Black Box Voting; Jeff Fisher who was running for Congress; Bridget Leininger with the Democratic Party of Arizona; Susan Marie Weber who helped with California voting machine issues; David Dudine, an Indiana activist; Russell Michaels of bathtimefilms; Attorney Alma Gonzalez; Ohio Senator Teresa Fedor via her assistant Greg Lestini; Lynn Landes, an online reporter; Clinton Curtis, who ran for the FL senate and lost (he said former FL Hse speaker Tom Feeney tried to get him to write software that could "switch the vote"; Kathy Dopp, statistician; the entire team from the computer firm AVANTE (that makes machines with paper trails); and countless reporters all over the country.
I even tried repeatedly to get in touch with Bill Moyers through his intermediary Rick Byrne, when he was one of the producers of NOW WITH BILL MOYERS.
Wayne Madsen, who writes the MADSEN REPORT, and is a computer security expert, was very helpful digging up the dirt. He wrote an investigative piece that blew me away. I’ve sent him an email asking permission to reprint the one story that is copied at only the first 20% below, because he has not answered in the past couple of hours.
Too bad there's no active link.... I can't post the jpg URL to the pic of GWB practically hugging Tom Feeney. That is just part of the Madsen story. Very interesting to me personally is the mysterious death of Ray Lemme who was found dead in a motel bathtub only a short drive from my house. I interviewed a woman deputy who works at the Valdosta Sheriff's Department, and thought that their claim that it was a suicide was decidedly hasty.
Here’s part of the Madsen article:
Special Report
Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation paid for "vote switching" software
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
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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.
Yang, an engineering and computer services company subcontracted to NASA prime contractors like Lockheed Martin, was founded in 1986 by Dr. Tyng-Lin (Tim) Yang. Granted minority-owned "Section 8A" and woman-owned preferential status by the U.S. government, Yang's clients also include the Florida Department of Transportation (DOT). Yang's President, Li-Woan (Lee) Yang, is Tim Yang's wife. Feeney was the registered agent for another Yang company, Y & H Greens, Inc., a company that was dissolved in 1988 and operated from the Yangs' residence on Merritt Island. The Yangs also serve as co-trustees for an entity called Yang of Merritt Island, Ltd., founded on January 31, 2000, and also run from their residence.
In the autumn of 1999, Curtis, who served as a sort of technology adviser for Yang, first became aware of Feeney's interest in election rigging. Curtis said at one meeting, Feeney "bragged that he could reduce the minority vote and deliver the election to 'George.'" At the same meeting, according to Curtis, Feeney said he had "implemented a list that would eliminate thousands of voters that would vote for Democratic candidates" and that "a proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black vote by as much as 25 percent."
Feeney's desire to manipulate the vote would be manifested in his home base of Volusia County in the 2000 presidential election. According to The Washington Post, at 10 p.m. on election night, Al Gore was leading Bush in Volusia County by 83,000 to 62,000 votes. One-half hour later, Gore's vote total had been reduced by 16,000 to 67,000 and an obscure Socialist candidate saw a sudden surge to 10,000 votes in a precinct with only 600 voters. The information on the Volusia optical scanner voting anomalies came from a leaked internal Diebold memorandum. In the end, Bush won Florida and the White House by a mere 537 votes in the most controversial U.S. presidential election in history.
Feeney had long been a voice in Florida GOP politics. He was gubernatorial candidate Jeb Bush's running mate in 1994, a race in which Democratic incumbent Lawton Chiles defeated Bush. Chiles once referred to Feeney as "the David Duke of Florida politics."
In 2002, Feeney asked Curtis if he could develop a touch screen voting machine "flip flop" program. According to Curtis, Feeney asked him, "Can you write a program to flip votes around on touch screen machines?" Curtis said Feeney wanted the program to merely reduce votes in heavily Democratic areas and flip Republican votes to 51 percent and keep Democrat votes to 49 percent. Curtis added that Feeney "did not want to win by a lot." In return, Curtis said Feeney offered him "big jobs." Curtis's main tasks at Yang were to develop the Florida DOT's Electronic Document Management System. He also worked on the Project Pipeline Information System at another one of Yang's major clients, Exxon Mobil's Coral Gables facility.
Curtis said he developed the voting program and eventually handed off his prototype to Feeney. The program was also reviewed by Curtis's senior coder, Hai Lin (Henry) Nee, who according to Florida Department of Transportation sources, was an illegal alien working in the United States. According Curtis, not only did Nee review the vote switching program code but he constantly downloaded sensitive data to his computer from NASA's computers. Nee, according to Curtis, moonlighted at an Orlando company called Azure Systems, described by The Orlando Sentinel as a "three person engineering firm" and one of a number of companies linked to Ting Ih-Hsu, a former Lockheed Martin employee. At the same time Nee was reviewing Yang's vote switching program, he was also being investigated by U.S. federal investigators for illegally shipping Hellfire missile parts to China. Oddly, although U.S. law enforcement agents had put Nee and his associates under surveillance for illegal exports of technology to China in 1999, he and his colleagues were not arrested until March of this year.
BIG SNIP…….HEY…I JUST NOTICED THE “DOWNLOAD A FREE COPY” AFTER THE TITLE OF THE ARTICLE. DOESN’T THAT IMPLY PERMISSION TO REPRINT?!
Do know that I admire you greatly, and will forever be grateful to you. Many blessings upon you and those you love.
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