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--I know that Curtis purportedly worked on only a prototype, but do you know if he had access to or worked with any election software as the basis for designing his prototype?

He's told me nothing about working with any election software. I have no reason to believe he had access to any at YEI at the time in question.

--Madsen says in his article that Feeney "wanted the prototype written in Visual Basic 5 (VB.5) in Microsoft Windows and the end-product designed to be portable across different Unix-based vote tabulation systems." Is this accurate? And is this only a statement about what Feeney wanted, or is this also what Curtis provided?

Hopefully you've read my original article (http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/original-brad-blog-whistleblower.html) and my "response to Bev Harris" (http://bradblogtoo.blogspot.com/2004/12/response-to-bev-harris-questions-on.html) to get some idea of my great concerns about various information from Madsen's story in general.

That said, Curtis has never said anything to me aobut Feeney wanting the program to be in any particular programming language, or that it should be portable to any other system. If Madsen got that information from Curtis or somewhere else I don't know anything about it. The specific requirements that Curtis spelled out for me that Feeney had asked for are the ones spelled out in his affidavit.

Curtis claims to have written the code allegedly requested by Feeney in VB5, which, Curtis says, is what he used at the time, and still uses for programming (though he may be up to a later version of VB, I'm not sure - point is he confirmed that he codes with VB).

--Madsen's article also says "Feeney wanted the program to...flip Republican votes to 51 percent and keep Democrat votes to 49 percent." Is this accurate, and just to verify, is it true that the 51%-49% mechanism was one that Feeney asked for (rather than something Curtis came up with)?

I'd have to check my notes, but I don't *believe* the 51%-49% spec was asked for by Feeney. Or atleast, Curtis didn't tell me that it was. He did, however, say that's what he created.

The quote from Madsen's article above is inaccurate according to my interviews with Curtis and with his affidavit in that the 49% would go to the remaining (Non-Republican) parties in the same proportion that they had been before the flip. Not 49% for the Democrats only, as the quote from Madsen's story claims.

Hope that's helpful!

Brad
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