Florida — Election Fraud Investigation

State hub page linking Florida-related election fraud allegations — primarily the Clint Curtis vote-rigging software allegations from 2000-2004.

Field	Details
State	Florida
Key Period	2000 Presidential Election and 2000-2004 software allegations
Key County	Seminole County (Yang Enterprises, Oviedo)
2020 Result	Trump carried Florida — not a contested state in 2020
Evidence Rating	STRONG EVIDENCE for Curtis software claims (sworn congressional testimony)

Overview

Florida's significance to election fraud investigation operates on two separate timelines. In 2000, Florida became the center of the most contested presidential election in modern American history through the Bush v. Gore recount — a dispute ultimately resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the years immediately following, a separate and more disturbing allegation emerged: computer programmer Clint Curtis testified under oath before Congress that he was commissioned in October 2000 to build prototype vote-rigging software by Tom Feeney, then Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Curtis built the software while working at Yang Enterprises, Inc. in Oviedo, Florida. A Florida Department of Transportation investigator, Raymond Lemme, was actively investigating the Curtis allegations when he was found dead in a Valdosta, Georgia hotel room in June 2003 — a death ruled suicide but disputed by Curtis and investigators who examined the case. Florida went for Trump in 2020 by a substantial margin and is not a contested state in 2020 fraud claims. Its relevance to this investigation is the historical foundation it provides for understanding how vote-rigging software could theoretically be built and deployed.

Key Allegations

Clint Curtis — Vote-Rigging Software — Computer programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis, who worked at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) in Oviedo, Florida, testified under oath at a December 2004 congressional hearing that Tom Feeney, then Speaker of the Florida House and a Yang Enterprises lobbyist, requested that he build a prototype program capable of secretly altering vote totals on touch-screen voting machines. Curtis stated that he built the proof-of-concept software — approximately 100 lines of code — and that it could flip votes to a 51/49 ratio for any candidate without detection unless the source code was externally reviewed. Curtis provided the testimony at a hearing convened by Representative John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) examining Ohio election irregularities in 2004.
Tom Feeney — Tom Feeney served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and simultaneously as a registered lobbyist for Yang Enterprises, Inc. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida's 24th congressional district (2003-2009). Feeney has denied Curtis's allegations. Curtis's core claim — that Feeney personally requested the vote-rigging software in October 2000 — remains unproven in court and disputed by Feeney.
Raymond Lemme — Raymond Lemme was a Florida Department of Transportation Inspector General's office investigator who was actively investigating the Curtis allegations — reportedly tracking connections between Yang Enterprises' FDOT contracts and potential election software fraud. Lemme was found dead on June 28, 2003, in a hotel room in Valdosta, Georgia — approximately 350 miles from Tallahassee, where he worked. His death was ruled a suicide. Curtis and others who examined the case disputed this conclusion, citing physical evidence inconsistencies and the timing of his death in relation to the investigation's progress. No charges were filed in connection with Lemme's death.

Raymond Lemme's Investigation

According to Curtis's account, Lemme had told him in the weeks before his death that the investigation was "going higher than you could imagine" and that he expected to break the story. Lemme was not publicly known to have traveled to Valdosta, and no official explanation for his presence there at the time of his death was publicly documented. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ruled the death a suicide. Curtis requested an independent forensic review; the full results have not been publicly disclosed.

Florida Election History — Bush v. Gore (2000)

The 2000 presidential election produced a 537-vote margin in Florida for George W. Bush after a weeks-long recount dispute that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court's 5-4 ruling in Bush v. Gore halted the manual recount and effectively awarded Florida — and the presidency — to Bush. The recount dispute centered on paper ballots and "hanging chads," not on electronic voting machines. The Curtis allegations, if accurate, would represent a separate and parallel fraud vector that existed simultaneously with the public recount dispute.

Counterarguments

Feeney has consistently denied Curtis's allegations.
No independent corroborating witness from Yang Enterprises has come forward to confirm Curtis's account of the October 2000 meeting.
Georgia law enforcement ruled Lemme's death a suicide following investigation; no evidence of homicide was publicly established.
Curtis's credibility has been contested in part because some additional claims he made — such as allegations about Florida congressional races — were not corroborated by election outcome data he cited.
The software Curtis claims to have built has never been publicly produced or independently verified as existing.

Sources

This information was compiled by Claude AI research.

Overview​

Key Allegations​

Raymond Lemme's Investigation​

Florida Election History — Bush v. Gore (2000)​

Counterarguments​

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