Fixing Elections: Clint Curtis Testifies

Posted by mike hersh

by David Earnhardt, “Uncounted” filmmaker

Each week until the election we will release a clip from UNCOUNTED because now, more than ever, people need to see stories that will motivate them to stand up and help save our democracy. Please spread these clips around - to the bleary-eyed and the overworked and the uninspired and the skeptical. This week we offer the story of whistleblower, Clint Curtis, who did more than simply recognize the right thing to do.


WEEK 2: Million Dollar Programmer (Photo: Clint Curtis Testifies. Say it, Brother!)

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“Mr. Curtis,” said the questioner at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee proceedings, “are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?”

And so begins the story of Cint Curtis - computer programmer, Floridian, Republican - who was asked by the company he worked for to create a vote-rigging software prototype that he assumed would be used to try and “catch” would-be fraudsters. It was a standard “opposition research” assignment - or so he was told.

The truth, of course, was something completely different and weaves into a tangled web the 2000 Presidential Election debacle, a now-sitting U.S. Congressman, and the number one threat to our national security - electronic voting.

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