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Choice Changes.
Clint Curtis, with 61 % of the vote, is way ahead of Dr. Andy Michaud in the Democratic primary for the 24th district of Florida.
I know the Daily Kos community has all but ignored Clint Curtis, but I think it maybe time to really check him out. The Democrats in the 24th district apparently have.
I interviewed Clint by telephone last winter, with the intention of writing an article. We talked for about an hour. He had not yet decided to run for anything, but was trying to educate people about how the security of our electronic voting systems has been breached. He knew, first hand, how easy it would be to change an election result undetected, because he wrote such a program while in the employ of Yang Enterprises. Tom Feeney, one of the Abramoff 64, who was at one time legal counsel for the Yangs, asked Clint to design a program that would allow vote totals to be flipped. Curtis thought this was to deal with security issues, to make electronic elections more secure. He thought, that after designing the program, there would be work on how to guard against it. After creating the program, he was horrifed to find out that the intention wasn't to protect the integrity of election results, it was to control them. He had gone so far as to testify before Congress about his insider knowledge.
When I interviewed Clint, I was struck by his sincerity and intelligence. But after going over the material we covered in our interview, I realized the whole story had been covered by the Brad Blog, and with no new material I didn't write the article. I did however, keep in touch and watched with fascination as he stepped up to run for Congress. He's been relegated here on Daily KOS to non-ness, a kind of conspiracy theorist tinfoilly marginalism. The problem is, his story isn't entirely theory. It is based on his own experience, and the 24th district of Florida Democrats believe him.
I'm proud to have helped him some. I wrote the basic text to the issue of Port Security, for his issues' page after some e-mail discussions, so I understood his position. He "Clintified" it, and it was put up.
I have alot of respect for Clinton Curtis' courage to run for office. Much of what he has warned about has been backed up in with independent reviews of the security of electronic election systems.
As the Democrats of the 24th district have spoken, I think it is time for the Daily KOS community to get behind Clinton Curtis, to unseat Republican Tom Feeney. Feeney is a true Bush brother insider, and just about as corrupt as they come.
Maybe with a person who has real understanding of computer programing and of electronic voting actually working in Congress, real security can be attained for our election systems.