FLORDIA DEM TO CHALLENGE ELECTION RESULTS.

[StraightDope]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200611/POL20061114b.html

(CNSNews.com) - A Florida Democrat says he won't concede defeat in his race to unseat Republican Rep. Tom Feeney "until every vote is actually counted."

Clint Curtis said he is considering a legal challenge to the election results: "In this election, the results did not match the Zogby pre-election poll, our internal VoteNow2006.net polling, or our exit polling," Curtis explained.

"These anomalies need to be investigated and cleared up, not just in my race but for every district where the count just doesn't add up."


SraightDope says: Shine the light on me, shine the light on me, let it SHIIIINNE!

[Botany]

1. Go for it Clint

The only way the repugs saved some of their seats was by cheating.

[thereismore]

2. way to go! nt

[WilliamPitt]

3. Oh man

If they were stupid enough to mess with votes in a race Clint Curtis is involved with, they have expanded the definition of stupid into bold new horizons.

[FogerRox]

4. Stupid is as stupid does. HAHahahahahahha ha hah ahaha ha

[StraightDope]

5. dupe

[WilliamPitt]

7. Here ya go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Curtis

Vote-rigging allegations

Specifically Curtis alleged that:

At the behest of Rep. Tom Feeney, in September 2000, he was asked to write a program for a touchscreen voting machine that would make it possible to change the results of an election undetectably. This technology, explained Curtis, could also be used in any electronic tabulation machine or scanner. Curtis assumed initially that this effort was aimed at detecting Democratic fraud, but later learned that it was intended to benefit the Republican Party.

West Palm Beach was named as an intended target, but used punched card ballots in the 2000 elections. Indeed, West Palm Beach was famous for the "hanging chad" recounts of that election.

Curtis explained that the software could be used in any electronic tabulation machine or scanner. He spoke about this to the Conyers Voting Forum, after Conyers left the forum and turned over the dais on 2004-12-13

More: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=clint+curtis

[StraightDope]

10. That certainly answers my question...

Thanks, buddy! :hi:

[Last Stand]

9. I believe he wants to tell Congress about being asked to write vote-stealing

software while he was a Republican tech guy. I think this is "THE" Clint Curtis. He has a story to tell, and he's a threat.

[petgoat]

37. Clint has a story to tell all right.

After he was asked to write the vote-switching software, Clint
left that company. He went for work for the Florida DOT and
soon found that his former employers, Yang Enterprises, were
over-billing the DOT. This brought him into contact with the
office of the Inspector General of the DOT and in IG investigator
names Raymond Lemme, who soon wound up dead in a Georgia motel
room.

There are a number of peculiarities about Mr. Lemme's alleged
suicide.

Brad Friedman has been on the case all along. http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3024

The first time I saw Clint Curtis was on C-Span when he was the last
public commenter at the Conyers forum about election irregularities,
and he was babbling about contacting the CIA and the FBI, and I wrote him
off as a nut. When I found out about the Lemme story I saw he had good
reason to be a bit... tense.

Check out demopedia on Clint: http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Clinton_Curtis

Check out Curtis's testimony before a later Conyers forum in Ohio, where he
says he can write software modules in vote tabulators that will switch votes,
communicate with reporting terminals and switch their votes, and then
erase themselves from memory.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8112825559202389150

He's written a book about his experiences:

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Fly-Wall-Clint-Curtis/dp/0976195909

[StraightDope]

6. Well, Will, I have to confess ignorance on this one...

What makes Clint Curtis so special? Is he like the Conyers of FL, or what?

[WilliamPitt]

8. Is there an echo in here?

;)

See post 7.

[StraightDope]

12. Sorry about that...

Y'know the internet is a series of tubes, and sometimes, a post gets split and sent down two tubes simultaneously...

:rofl:

[hvn_nbr_2]

32. I figured that if there was one race they would make sure who won...

it was this one. They can't afford to have Clint Curtis making speeches in Congress. I would have thought they'd do anything to keep him out of Congress.

[Tatiana]

44. Well, Robert Novak did say Republicans had become the "stupid party."

So, maybe Curtis should file a lawsuit and let's see what comes out in the wash.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Thanks for posting StaightDope

Kicked and recommended

:kick:

[Name removed]

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[katinmn]

14. And it mustsuckbnu2!

:hi:

[StraightDope]

15. Eh, whaaa?

Although I confess that I see a rabbit making mochi in your avatar. Fuck the "man" in the moon!

[katinmn]

17. Hobby: "voting republican" (where's pest control?)

[StraightDope]

20. OK, now I'm very confused...

:shrug:

To whom do you refer?

[katinmn]

24. LOL. click on mustsuckbnu's profile

he/she/it also called you a $#%@^%$ socialist mfer.

I think we have been visted by ideological opposition.

And I must change my avatar if you really see a rabbit pooping on my moon. :-(

[StraightDope]

27. No, not pooping, making mochi...

Japanese glutinous rice cakes. It's what the Japanese see when looking at the moon. Go do a google image search, you'll not only see what I mean, you'll also never see that crappy man in the moon ever again!

[katinmn]

36. Oh, I'd forgotten about that!

:)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

25. Who the fuck thinks of voting as a hobby? n/t

[Uncle Joe]

18. Welcome to D.U. mustsuckbnu, is that Latin?

:hi:

[WilliamPitt]

22. Wow

Makes me proud to be a )*&(&^%)*&%)*&% American.

:eyes:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

23. Yeah, go mail some not-antrax to him, why don'tcha?

Still live in mom's basement, too?

[robertpaulsen]

31. Oh, how sweet! It's a pathetic masochistic LOSER!

mustsucklivinginyourparentsbasement! Done jacking off today, nothing better to do with your time than be subjected to abuse from the party that kicked your ass a week ago?

[glitch]

35. Your name is what people call you, not what you call other people.

That's how it works. Do you like being called mustsuckbnu?

[robertpaulsen]

16. K & R! Put this on the greatest page!

:kick:

[StraightDope]

19. But in project Mayhem, we have no names...

HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSON!

:patriot:

[robertpaulsen]

39. That's right!

I am Jack's Smirking Revenge too!

[usregimechange]

21. Now that is how Dems are suppose to act!

[paulk]

26. the race wasn't close

From the article:


"The Feeney-Curtis race wasn't exactly close: With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, Feeney had 58 percent (123,557 votes) to Curtis's 42 percent (89,672)."



Is this guy (Curtis) credible? Why would the Republican need to cheat in a race he won by over 20k votes?

[StraightDope]

28. Better question...

Why would a Republican win by 2ok votes in the '06 election unless he or she DIDN'T cheat?

Riddle me that.

[New Earth]

29. this is the best thing for him to do

not even to win, but to expose any fraud. he is the Clint Curtis who gave sworn testimony in front of Demoratic House Members that he was asked BY FEENEY a few years back when he worked for a software company, to create software that would change the vote count in electronic voting machines.
this is extremely interesting to any who followed the 2004 election fraud investigations. Clint Curtis indirectly actually created the software (or however you want to call it) that flips the vote counts. he did it back then because it was his job.....

(ps if you want more info please someone else post info for this DU member, i'm eating and i'm starving!!)

[petgoat]

41. see post 37

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2716739&mesg_id=2717343

[New Earth]

30. this is so cool

Clint rules :)

[New Earth]

33. does anyone know WHAT the exit poll numbers were

for this race?

[progressoid]

48. Did anyone even do exits for this race?

I did a quick google and could only find a zogby poll from Oct 23:

Feeney - 45%
Curtis - 43
Other - 2
Not sure - 10

The race for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 24th District is a virtual toss-up. Incumbent Tom Feeney holds the slimmest of leads over challenger Clint Curtis, 45% to 43%, with one in ten (10%) undecided.

Each candidate leads big among his own party's members, but Curtis leads among independents, 48% to 37%.

[New Earth]

49. but wow

that is a very close poll. EXTEMELY DIFFERENT from the results :eyes:

[tom_paine]

34. God Bless You, Clint Curtis! Keep investigating & fighting!

Shine the light on those goddamned vote stealers. I wonder how many House seats the Dems REALLY won?

[blue4barb]

38. k & r for Clint and may every vote be counted!!!

[stepnw1f]

40. What a Dumb, Dumb, Thing to Do

but thank you for trying because now we might actually learn more about the who and how.

[freedomfries]

42. K & R

[eridani]

43. He had exactly the same rap when he WON his primary

He absolutely and publicly refused to declare victory until all the votes were counted.

[Patsy Stone]

45. K&R for Clint

Count every single vote, all the time, period.

[LeahD]

46. Exactly! n/t

[Senator]

47. kick (feeney in the groin)