Programmer who alleged plot to steal Florida election runs for Congress

Programmer who alleged plot to steal Florida election runs for Congress

Carlos Miller
Published: Friday March 24, 2006

To Republicans, Clint Curtis is a traitor; a back-stabbing liar with an imagination that rivaled Jack Abramoff's influence over Congress.

To liberal Democrats, Curtis is a hero; a stand up guy who blew the whistle on computer voting fraud, testifying before a group of U.S. House Committee Judiciary Democrats after the 2004 presidential election.

And to the man himself, the Republican-turned-Democrat is nothing but a computer geek who purports to have found himself smack in the middle of a brazen political plot to tamper with elections in Florida, where fact can be stranger than fiction and politics as shady as swampy underbrush.

After all, since the software programmer accused Florida Congressman Tom Feeney of asking him to create a computer program to steal an election, the plot has unraveled quirkier than a Carl Hiaasen novel.

So far, a state investigator who had been looking into a contract held by Curtis' former employer was found dead in a cheap motel room and an illegal Chinese immigrant, a colleague of Curtis' who worked for a close friend of Feeney's, was allowed to remain in the United States and received a $100 fine for passing sophisticated missile technology to China.

It's no wonder why Curtis keeps a loaded AK-47 behind his door.

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is our own RagingInMiami? (Stop me now, Raging, if you don't want anyone to know.)

wow!

And if I can't take claim for what I've written, either with my RL name or my DU name, then I probably shouldn't be writing in the first place.

Curtis is running against a lifelong Democrat in the primary named Andy Michaud. As far as I know Mr. Michaud was never in need of a conversion experience like Curtis. I also have yet to read about ANY legal proceeding that bears out Curtis's story. As far as I can tell, Mr. Curtis's story is just that - a story. I might be wrong, but I think I remember reading breathless stories from Curtis when he first appeared on DU in which he described "shadowy" people sneaking up to his house and whacking his dog and all manner of Tom Clancy like intrigue. He might be telling the truth, but who would know? I think that DUer's should take just a bit of care to research Mr. Michaud and Mr. Curtis before throwing money at them.

In the interest of fairness, here is Curtis's Democratic primary challenger Andy Michaud's web site:
http://www.andymichaud2006.com/default.asp

And if you need "legal proceedings" before you can actually believe something, then I guess you also believe there has never been computer election fraud in this country, there has never been any evidence that Bush planned to invade Iraq before 9/11 and there has never been any illegal wiretapping either.

After all, as far as I know, there has never been any legal proceedings on those matters either.