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Clint Curtis

Computer programmer who testified under oath that he was asked to build vote-rigging software by Florida Speaker of the House Tom Feeney in October 2000.

FieldDetails
Full NameClinton Eugene Curtis
RoleWhistleblower / Computer Programmer / Attorney
PlatformSworn congressional testimony, documentary film
Notable Works2004 congressional testimony on vote-rigging software; subject of "Murder, Spies & Voting Lies" (2008) documentary
Cases Investigated2000 Florida election software, 2004 Ohio election irregularities
Evidence RatingSTRONG EVIDENCE

Video Testimony​

Clint Curtis sworn testimony at the December 13, 2004 congressional hearing on Ohio election irregularities. Source: @conspiracyb0t on X, April 3, 2026.

Summary​

Clinton Eugene Curtis is a computer programmer from Oviedo, Florida who worked at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI), a technology consulting firm holding contracts with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and NASA. In October 2000, Curtis was allegedly asked by Tom Feeney — then Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and a lobbyist for Yang Enterprises — to create a prototype computer program that could secretly alter vote tallies on touch-screen voting machines.

Curtis testified that he initially assumed the request was to create a defensive tool to detect such fraud. He prepared documentation on how to protect against vote manipulation, including recommendations for paper trails and source code audits. According to Curtis, when he presented this to Li Woan Yang (owner of Yang Enterprises), she told him: "You don't understand. We need to hide the fraud in the source code. It's needed to control the vote in South Florida."

Curtis stated he then built a proof-of-concept prototype — approximately 100 lines of code — that could flip votes to a 51-49 ratio for whichever candidate was selected, in any race, and would be undetectable without access to the source code.

Their Findings​

Curtis's core claims, given under oath:

  • Electronic voting machines running proprietary, unauditable code can be secretly programmed to alter vote tallies
  • The vote-flipping program he built was approximately 100 lines of code and "they would never see it" — election officials on county boards could not detect it
  • The only way to detect such software is to review the source code with programmers from all parties, or to have paper receipts and count them against the electronic totals
  • No protective program or protocol could prevent this kind of rigging without source code access
  • If exit polling data is "significantly off from the vote, then it's probably hacked"

Key Quotes​

"Are there programs that can be used to secretly fix elections?" — "Yes." — Clint Curtis, sworn testimony, December 13, 2004

"It would flip the vote 51-49 to whoever you wanted it to go to and whichever race you wanted to win." — Clint Curtis, describing the prototype he built

"They would never see it." — Clint Curtis, when asked if county election officials could detect the program

"You don't understand. We need to hide the fraud in the source code. It's needed to control the vote in South Florida." — Li Woan Yang (owner of Yang Enterprises), according to Curtis's testimony

"If you have exit polling data that is significantly off from the vote, then it's probably hacked." — Clint Curtis, on detecting election fraud

Key Evidence They Cite​

  • The proof-of-concept prototype program itself (Curtis stated he created it)
  • The impossibility of detecting such code without source code review
  • Statistical anomalies between exit polling data and tabulated results in Ohio 2004
  • The structure of proprietary voting machine software that prevents independent auditing
  • Yang Enterprises' documented illegal campaign contributions to Tom Feeney (later confirmed by federal convictions)

Where They've Presented It​

  • December 13, 2004 — Sworn testimony at a public hearing organized by Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, investigating 2004 Ohio election irregularities
  • Sworn affidavit filed with multiple agencies
  • Complaints filed with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and the FBI
  • Subject of the documentary "Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story" (2008, directed by Patty Sharaf)
  • Extensive coverage by Brad Friedman at The Brad Blog
  • Referenced in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s 2006 Rolling Stone article on the 2004 election

The Counterargument​

  • Tom Feeney categorically denied all of Curtis's claims, calling them fabricated and politically motivated
  • No forensic analysis of actual voting machines has confirmed that Curtis's prototype code was ever deployed in a real election
  • The 2004 hearing was organized by Democratic members only — it was not a formal bipartisan committee hearing with subpoena power
  • Curtis later ran for Congress against Feeney (2006, 2008, 2010) as a Democrat, which critics cited as potential political motivation
  • No criminal charges were ever brought based on the vote-rigging allegations specifically
  • Some election security experts noted that while the theoretical vulnerability is real, proving it was exploited in a specific election requires evidence beyond the existence of the capability

Retaliation / Suppression​

  • Curtis filed complaints with the FDLE and FBI — according to Curtis and his supporters, these were largely ignored or not seriously investigated
  • Raymond Lemme, the Florida DOT Inspector General investigator assigned to look into Curtis's allegations about Yang Enterprises, was found dead on June 29, 2003 in a hotel room in Valdosta, Georgia. His death was ruled a suicide. Curtis and election integrity advocates have questioned this ruling, noting Lemme had reportedly told Curtis he had "tracked the corruption all the way to the top" and was about to make arrests. See Raymond Lemme.
  • The investigation into Curtis's claims effectively died with Lemme
  • Curtis ran for Congress three times against Feeney and lost each election
  • A RICO lawsuit filed by Curtis was ultimately dismissed

Subsequent Corroboration​

While the core vote-rigging allegation was never independently verified, several of Curtis's broader claims about corruption at Yang Enterprises were later confirmed:

  • In 2009, Li Woan Yang and her husband were indicted on federal charges including illegal campaign contributions (made in the names of employees — including to Tom Feeney's campaigns), tax evasion, and theft of trade secrets related to NASA's Space Shuttle program
  • Li Woan Yang was convicted and sentenced to federal prison
  • The illegal campaign contribution convictions documented a direct financial link between Yang Enterprises and Tom Feeney's political campaigns
  • Tom Feeney was separately tainted by the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal (accepting a golf trip to Scotland paid for by Abramoff's network) and lost his congressional seat in 2008
  • Tom Feeney — Florida Speaker of the House who allegedly requested the vote-rigging software
  • Raymond Lemme — Florida DOT investigator who died while investigating Curtis's claims
  • 2020 Antrim County Michigan — Another case involving voting machine integrity concerns

Other Coverage Worth Reading​

  • 2020 Antrim County Michigan: ASOG forensic audit found 68.05% error rate on Dominion machines — adjudication logs deleted.
  • Tom Feeney: Florida Speaker who allegedly asked a programmer to build undetectable vote-flipping code.
  • Raymond Lemme: Investigator found dead in a Georgia hotel after telling Curtis he was about to make arrests.

Related State / County Pages​

  • Florida — Florida election integrity investigation hub (Curtis was a Florida programmer; Feeney was Florida Speaker)
  • FBI — Federal investigation patterns; Curtis filed FBI complaints that were reportedly not acted upon

Sources​

Status: Alive

This information was compiled by Claude AI research.