Feeney Implicated in Vote Fraud Congressman sought to alter totals, testimony in Ohio case says

Seminole Chronicle ^ | December 16, 2004 | By Alex Babcock

[Arkinsaw]

I had no idea the hallucinations had triggered a House investigation.

I don't think its a "House investigation" though the Democrats are trying to portray it as that (and the media is going out of its way not to make it clear).

I think these guys are holding their "hearings" in a Motel 6 lobby in Littleville, Ohio. Might be the same place they held the "Winter Soldier" investigations. Might even be the same witnesses.

[FreeKeys]

If Feeney had asked him anything at all, it would have been because he didn't trust touch-screen machines in the first place, and wanted to find reasons for OPPOSING them at the state level. Other than that one possibility, it's all hogwash.

[Navy Patriot]

Can you even imagine an incredibly corrupt but highly intelligent pol making such a request in front of a programmer?

Nope.

I think Curtis is an incompetent figuring on streching 15 minutes of fame into a jackpot.

[LPM1888]

I work in the IT industry, and the idea that a handful of people could write a program and sneak it into voting machines is just so insane, it's almost laughable. Where, for example, is the source code in the software on the machines in question?

If you have access to the source code it wouldn't be that hard to do.

[El Gran Salseron]

All that has to be done is to ask this guy to produce the software either on media or the printed out source code. :-)

[dannyboy72]

As a programmer and someone who has put together teams of developers to work on larger-scale projects, you would not tell the programmers why they were creating this program. You would tell the programmer that you need to balance an equation on an inventory system that weights certain criteria differently in order to help the company maintain certain levels of inventory.

So, we need a system that will increase the amount of a purchase order by 1 for each 8 that are ordered. They will need to write this program into our existing secure software and it must be adjustable for management, but secure from others attempts to hack. Then you ask, can you do it?

You give them the source code and they go to work. Then you have to get the new source code into the system unnoticed and then test it. It obviously will not work perfectly the first time, or even the second time. So you would probably have three runs on the system. Then you have to disseminate the code changes throughout the system and install the correct update parameters to ensure that votes are increased by different margins within each county so that you do not over poll the population.

It would be a conspiracy of enormous proportions across many fields of expertise. In other words, impossible to conceal. I liken it to trying to rig he playoffs of professional baseball. Not impossible, but you would have to have all of the players in the bag. And dumb luck could sink the whole thing. Not worth it, even if Hitler was running with a D behind his name.

[TexasGreg]

While it might not be that hard to write the software, how are you going to get it into voting machines that are maintained, operated, programmed, and kept by Democrats in Democrat voting districts?????????

If the software has already been written, they should pony up with it. Let's see it!!!!!

[goldstategop]

The DU moonbats are well - you know, its no longer trying to overturn this election... its setting up an impeachment case against the President. As for the allegations, they strike me as ridiculous. If the VRWC was involved in altering the vote totals in Floriduh, its a well kept secret! Actually this overlooks the fact the election canvassing boards in Democratic counties were run by Democrats. They recounted and recounted the votes for Algore and despite their best efforts, he still couldn't win! The sore losers just don't want to face up to the fact they lost and its time to move on. I don't really understand all this Bush hatred - its getting these people nowhere.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I just thank our lucky stars that the Democrats are looking at this silly angle and not at the mind control rays we're all using on them. Oops. I wasn't supposed to mention that on an open forum.

[writmeister]

The DUmmies have been salivating over Curtis for days.

Trolling DU looking for nuts - A new guilty pleasure.

[Cold Heat]

This is what it is, a bogus complait that is likely funded by some dim wit dem.

Great fodder for DU and Maxine Waters.

[Cold Heat]

how are you going to get it into voting machines that are maintained, operated, programmed, and kept by Democrats in Democrat voting districts?????????

A prom programmer. But I do not know what type of system they are using.

A good one would require a computer, like a lap top and a interface program, or a specially made device.

But one can read and reprogram any EPROM based system, just like a car computer with a homemade device or even store bought in some cases.

The thing that stops this sort of treachery is the preop test prior to use. These tests are designed to find failures in the logic. Usually a ladder logic type of program. Bugs should be easy to find.

[shubi]

I have been spreading the rumor that the electronic machines were fixed to divert votes, by dark fingers sensed touching the screen, to Bush. Maybe this is the result. LOL

It is really fun to harass paranoids. I never thought to say that it was "super secret probation" (Animal House) code that no one could detect.

Bwaaahaaahaaaa The Rats are really losing it.

[Cold Heat]

Well, they sure don't need much of a push to go over the edge.

[Darkwolf377]

"Trolling DU looking for nuts - A new guilty pleasure."

I have to admit it's my new vice. SOmeone posted a link here and I clicked on it, and it was everything I imagined it to be. I am critical of some postings here but holy cow, what a bunch of eggbrains! (scrambled)

[Rockingham]

This story is an utter crock, a lie by a disgruntled employee meant to get publicity and extract a settlement from or do harm to a former employer. In addition to the implausibility of the claim, I know Tom Feeney to be smart, honest, and careful. I have know him personally since he first ran for office, and I did extensive work on that campaign and on two of his later campaigns. Tom simply would not be involved in that kind of thing and would recoil from the suggestion.

[Uncle Vlad]

This is what it is, a bogus complaint that is likely funded by some dimwit dem. Great fodder for DU and Maxine Waters.

Good point. The people running this "investigation" have so little technical expertise, they probably think television works because there are little people inside of it.

Wasn't it Sheila Jackson Lee, for example, who asked the NASA people if the Mars space probe was going to land on Mars near the place where the Apollo 11 astronauts landed in 1969?

[Jack Black]

Laugh all you want but this story will get spread around and another group of people will believe it. Slowly our elections are being held up for ridicule. From the gold standard to 3rd world level in the eyes of many. This has repercussions far beyond our own borders. Our young men are dying in Iraq to provide elections there, and lying democrats and socialist operatives of George Soros are doing their best to erode the electoral system here.

Soros and his ilk would like nothing better than to see us in the situation the Ukraine is in. In Washington State, we are.

[Uncle Vlad]

My concern is that there are enough stupid people out there who will believe this nonsense. If they'll believe "tax breaks for the rich" and all of the other urban legend drivel the left trowels out, we have to be especially vigilant. Few things are more dangerous than hysterical stupid people.

[mewzilla]

...Former computer programmer Clint Curtis...

Why is he a former computer programmer?

Feeney could not be reached for comment.

Did the paper even try?