Excerpts from the Interview
Clint Curtis (02:18.285)
Well, for the new people, I was the programmer that wrote the prototype for the electronic voting machines way back in 99, 2000. And even when I wrote that code, there was code in it by request. So someone could go and actually pick who was going to win in any race they wanted to switch. So that was in there, testified before Congress, have been working on this for forever. And haven’t been able to get rid of the machines here. We have in Germany and in the Netherlands and in other countries, but here people are dug in. Politicians are dug in on those machines. So now I have been appointed as the election supervisor out in Shasta County, California. The people out there are very motivated to get elections that they can trust as well as the board of supervisors doing the same thing. .. we are going to put an election together that will make sure that even if you’re stuck with the machines, like we are in California, the election machines cannot modify the election at all where you can’t trust it. So that’s what I’m doing now.
Clint Curtis (04:46.702)
Well, a little background, Shasta County voted to get rid of the machines and they were going to go full hand count. And within one week, the California legislature, and this is one little county in California, actually changed the law that they could not do that and had to use a machine. Does that make any sense? Well, makes no sense. So they’re still fighting the fight though. They haven’t given up. They’re still in the game. So that’s what I’m here for. And essentially what we’re going to do.
Clint Curtis (05:15.114)
is we’re going to take all the ballots that come in and nothing’s going to be opened early, nothing to be counted early, everything’s going to be sent back to the precinct. Only in the precinct after election day, which will simulate, you know, basically an election day vote because nothing’s predetermined, it’ll be open there and then it will be counted out on camera in stacks of 50. So the citizens will see every ballot and know exactly what’s going on.
Clint Curtis (05:44.363)
… Although it’s going to be live streamed and it’s going to be recorded. They’re all stacks of 50. They then come back to the election office because we can’t use the tabulators at the actual precincts because if you use them there, it doesn’t keep your batch numbers. So everything gets jumbled. And the more it’s jumbled, the less likely it is that you can actually find out if something goes wrong. I think by design, but that’s just me. So it’s coming back.
Clint Curtis (20:57.474)
But I was talking with them and I was telling the procedure and they said, well, we’re actually happy because unless someone manipulates our machine, it’s going to count correctly. And with this system, you are showing that this count is correct. It’s no more this guessing or thinking something’s off or so it’s validated here. It’s validated before right before it goes to the machine and it’s validated right after it comes out of the machine. So everything is perfect. They’re just doing a little math for you.
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