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+White House-linked clandestine operations, paid for "vote switching"
software.
Special Reports .
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/120604Madsen/120604madsen.html
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Texas to Florida: White House-linked clandestine operation, paid for "vote
switching" software.
By Wayne Madsen.
Online Journal Contributing Writer.
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
program, written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) and designed to operate in Windows
and be portable to Unix-based vote tabulation systems, 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.
Curtis claimed that Yang's corporate bosses stressed that the company had
"unlimited" sources of money that came "mostly" from China. According to
Florida DOT employees, House Speaker Feeney pressured their agency to give
money to Yang for nonexistent software. The sources also revealed that
Feeney was aware that Yang was employing a number of illegal aliens on State
of Florida and federal contracts.
Feeney's ties to Yang paralleled similar close ties to NASA. Feeney's wife
Ellen has worked as an engineer for NASA's Kennedy Space Center since 1985.
Jeb Bush ensured that Florida's 24th Congressional District was redrawn so
that Feeney would have an easy time in his 2002 race against Democratic
opponent Harry Jacobs. According to Florida state officials, who spoke on
the condition anonymity, 500 Yang employees at the Kennedy Space Center were
paid for their time when they agreed to picket against Jacobs. In addition,
NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe, according to the same sources, lobbied
extensively for Feeney within NASA. In addition, O'Keefe and his close
friend and former Pentagon boss, Vice President Dick Cheney,
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