Former Tom Feeney (R-FL) aide to head Florida elections office

[seafan]

Isn't this just SWELL??



Tom Feeney (FL-R), former US Representative


Yeah, THAT Tom Feeney of Jack Abramoff fame, vote fraud software scheme fame and FL recount 2000 fame:

Washington Post

November 18, 2000

TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 17–Republicans in charge of the Florida legislature are preparing a legal strategy to appoint the state's 25 electors themselves if the Florida Supreme Court fails to rule on the matter promptly.

"We're going to potentially ignore the state Supreme Court," Tom Feeney, a Republican lawyer who will take over as House speaker on Tuesday, said in an interview today. "It is the state legislature that determines the method of selecting electors. . . . The question is whether or not the Supreme Court of Florida has any role whatsoever. If they try to interfere with our responsibilities, then we still have to fulfill them." ----Speaker of Florida House, Tom Feeney, November 18, 2000

Al Gore never had a chance with these goons in charge.



Do we REALLY want a former aide to Tom Feeney taking a top position in Florida's Election Division??

Please tell me this is a bad joke.




By Gary Fineout
February 28, 2008

Secretary of State Kurt Browning said that he has hired Donald Palmer, an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, to be the next director of the state elections division. Palmer was also once an aide to Congressman Tom Feeney and worked for the U.S. Navy in the judge advocate general's corps.

Browning said that Palmer was the best qualified of the eight applicants for the post, noting his role in enforcement of federal election laws. Browning downplayed any concerns about partisanship, pointing out that Palmer only worked for the Central Florida Republican in 2005. Feeney has earned a reputation as a brass-knuckles campaigner and when he was House Speaker advocated having the Legislature designate electors for George W. Bush during the 2000 recount.

"It was a very, very short time he was with Congressman Feeney,'' said Browning. "He is very non-partisan, he is very fair."

Palmer is replacing Sarah Jane Bradshaw, who has been the acting division director since last fall when Amy Tuck abruptly resigned last November.

On Secretary of State Kurt Browning:


December 15, 2006

TALLAHASSEE - Gov.-elect Charlie Crist on Thursday chose Pasco County Supervisor of Elections Kurt Browning to be secretary of state, taking charge of Florida's voting systems at a time when they are again under close national scrutiny.

.....

Browning has opposed the need for a paper audit trail on electronic voting machines, which Crist supports, but the appointee quickly put himself in line with his new boss.

"As the incoming secretary, I need to be open about all the technology that's out there," Browning said. "I believe that voters need to have a high level of confidence in their voting systems."

Right-OH, Mr. Browning. We are SO confident in your new appointment, Donald Palmer.

[eleny]

1. Aw Christ.

:thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

[Richard Steele]

2. Oh bloody hell!

:banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:

[blm]

3. Well - this is where DNC has GOT to do its job and POUND ON THIS PROBLEM.

If they can't physically secure the elections then they better make DAMN SURE the RNC feels WATCHED at every level of the process where the votes are allowed, cast and counted and SCREAM ABOUT IT.


Shining a spotlight on RNC election fraud tactics is the least McAuliffe could have done after 2000s theft and he chose to ignore it completely.

THIS is what DNC needs to concentrate on more than anything else.

Secure the process and Dems can finally take office.

[ShaneGR]

8. DNC too busy making sure our votes don't count down here.....

Sadly.

[blm]

13. Baloney - that BS y'all have going on was set p deliberately to DISTRACT Dean and DNC from

the more pressing problems.

Don't even TRY pulling that line of crap with me, because I know damn well it was an attempted set up to cause a PERCEPTION problem for Dean so Hillary could push him out and replace him with a Clinton loyalist after her presumed Super Tuesday wins. Just as they tried pushing him out after Nov 2006.

[samdogmom]

4. YIKES! We have to win without Florida, I guess!

Who.In.Their.Right.Mind.Would.Pick.This.Wacko?

Remind me to NEVER visit Florida again until this complete debacle is fixed. I'm starting a one-family boycott of Florida until the state finally gets real--no more trips to DisneyWorld...and absolutely NO trips to visit winter vacationing friends and relatives! And that wedding of my niece in West Palm Beach this spring???? I guess I'll just send my regrets and a REALLY nice present.


On Edit: This guy is Katherine Harris without all the plastic surgery.

[ShaneGR]

6. Our votes don't even count in DEM primaries..... lol

Then everyone freaks when the Repugs do crazy stuff.

[ShaneGR]

5. Complain about Florida Republicans, and ignore Florida Dems....

At your peril. Our votes don't count in this primary, ironic, don't you think?

[KaryninMiami]

7. Unfucking believable. You do all remember the Tom Feeney - Clint Curtis situation, right?

Best coverage of this story and all the details are at www.bradblog.com

Here's another link to the details at Bradblog: http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=4454

Link to Clint's testimony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9BiVJucsM4

http://www.seminolechronicle.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/12/16/41c2fdb042ea1
Feeney implicated in vote fraud
Congressman sought to alter totals, testimony in Ohio case says
By Alex Babcock | December 16, 2004

Republican Congressman Tom Feeney of Oviedo asked a computer programmer in September 2000, prior to that year's contested presidential vote in Florida, to write software that could alter vote totals on touch-screen voting machines, the programmer said.

Former computer programmer Clint Curtis made the claim Monday in sworn testimony to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee investigating allegations of voter fraud in the 2004 presidential election involving touch-screen voting in Ohio.

In his testimony, Curtis said that Feeney, then a member of the Florida House of Representative, met with Curtis and other employees of Yang Enterprises, an Oviedo software company, and asked if the company could create a program that would allow a user to alter the vote totals while using the touch-screen machine. The program had to be written so that even the human-readable computer code would not show its illicit capabilities, Curtis recalled.

Curtis said he wrote a prototype program for Feeney, and that he believed the program might not only be usable on touch-screen voting machines, which some counties - predominantly in South Florida - now use, but also on optical-scan machines, which most of the state's counties used in the 2004 elections.

[seafan]

9. BradBlog has been on top of that story from the beginning. Thanks for the extra links. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

20. This is what I don't understand.

Haven't you all yet figured out that in Florida, they are skirting the law routinely? Nobody, but nobody can stop them because THEY INTIMIDATE PEOPLE. They have a whole way of life down here that relies on keeping people ignorant about the law and about procedure, so they can do whatever they want to do without being challenged.

I mean, these Florida boys aren't even good at it, like Rove and Cheney, yet they've been getting away with it since the early 80s. Why hasn't anyone noticed it before now?

[fascisthunter]

10. They Don't Even Disguise Thier Intent Anymore

absolutely incredible.

[kimmerspixelated]

11. The Nerve!

The gall of these thieves- these thieves of democracy. Where is our dragonslayer? Jeepers- they're gonna do it AGAIN!!!!

[fascisthunter]

12. "dragonslayer"... how about representation in Congress?

no need to go there

[vanboggie]

17. Was there ever any doubt?

When criminals are rewarded for their crimes and nobody stops them, why would anyone think this s-election will be any different?
Bastards.

[Kahuna]

14. Oh brother. Not that we ever really HAD a chance with FL. But now it's

DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!

[Sancho]

15. Worse than Katherine Harris! It's hard to believe...

Florida is election hell!

[vanboggie]

16. And election fraud goes on......

election fraud goes on. (to the tune of The Beat Goes On).

Gawd, that crooked, Bush buddy creep Feeney looks like he was a banty rooster in his last life. Creepy looking, creepy criminal.

[Zorra]

18. Well, we now know for sure that the thugs will cheat big time in Florida.

Thanks for the heads up.

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. They leave a blood trail and nobody wants to take them on directly.

[Octafish]

21. Crazy look, like last seen on one of those crime scene reconstructions.

Last guy I saw with that stare had just been sentenced.

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