Interesting video (12 minutes) of sworn testimony by a programmer. He claims he was hired by Tom Feeney, the Republican Speaker of the House in Florida in 2000, to hack electronic voting systems. Many suspected Feeney helped orchestrate a Bush victory through nefarious methods, based on some of the language and actions at the time. For example, Florida State Senate President John McKay worked closely with Feeney to bypass the Florida Supreme Court decision and call for a special session of the Florida state legislature to pick the state’s electors:
a reasonable person could conclude that the recent [Florida] Supreme Court actions [calling for a recount] may cause Congress not to accept our electors that have already been sent to Washington.
Our sole responsibility will be to put forth a slate of electors that is untainted and ensures that Florida’s 25 electoral votes count in this election, regardless for whom they voted.
No one has ever established on what basis McKay claimed that the Florida electors would not be accepted by Congress if there was a recount. Such a claim seems absurd. Now we see that he may have had a very real reason to oppose a recount; Feeney could be a man who intentionally tainted the vote by corrupting electronic voting systems and feared a recount would expose him.
This is why everyone should order a copy of Brave New Ballot.