New Times (Broward-Palm Beach) actually reported the story in this week's edition.
Trevor Aaronson is the reporter. I swear I trust the reporting of these guys from my local "rag" more than I do the MSM to report the truth.
http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2005-02-10/news/news.htmlPulp Nonfiction
A whistle blower alleges that U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney might have rigged the election in South Florida
BY TREVOR AARONSON
trevor.aaronson@newtimesbpb.com
In the fall of 2000, Republican power broker Tom Feeney attended a meeting at Yang Enterprises in Oviedo, near Orlando, a former employee of the firm says. Feeney, who would soon become Florida's speaker of the House, wasn't just a politician; he was also a lobbyist. Among his clients was Yang, a small software company owned by a wealthy Chinese-American woman named Li-Woan Yang.
Feeney went to his client with an assignment. According to a former company programmer, Feeney was interested in finding out whether electronic voting machines could be rigged. "Mr. Feeney said that he wanted to know if Yang Enterprises could develop a prototype of a voting program that could alter the vote tabulation in an election and be undetectable," programmer Clint Curtis would later write in a sworn affidavit submitted to U.S. Congress.
The meeting took place about a month before the 2000 election debacle and a year before electronic voting machines were introduced in the Sunshine State. For that reason, the 46-year-old Curtis, a lifelong Republican, didn't think he would be helping to fix an election. Feeney was acting preemptively, Curtis surmised. He simply wanted to know if an election could be rigged.
Curtis created a simple software program intended for electronic voting machines. The program could manipulate true results and ensure that a losing candidate would win 51 percent to 49 percent...
A month later, on July 3, 2002, police in Valdosta, Georgia, found Lemme dead in a bathtub at Knight's Inn, a cheap motel near Interstate 75, just across the Florida border. His left arm was slashed with a razor blade in an apparent suicide. "I love my family with all my heart," an unsigned suicide note read. "I am sorry." In a missing-persons report, Lemme's wife, Mary Ann, told the Leon County Sheriff's Office that her husband had "been under a lot of stress at work due to a 'big' case." FDOT is expected to release a final report of the Yang investigation this week.
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