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In reply to the discussion: If Anonymous has definitive proof that Rove tried to hack the vote, present it. [View all]flamingdem
(40,886 posts)I put this together from the posts by a person from Columbus Free Press who answered my question regarding how they knew about the experimental patches.
They came from Wikileaks, somehow hacked is what I understand. Excuse me for not knowing the exact relationship to Anonymous but there are surely connections.
The timing is what is telling. It was the same time that the warning to Rove came out regarding the elections - the we have an eye on you - post/video.
I think Fitrakis and freepress.org had something but we still don't know what, thus Anonymous made a claim, but the jury is still out on what the patches really do. Fitrakis of the freepress.org tried to have an injunction put on the machines Nov. 6th it was rejected, not enough time was one reason.
summary:
Fitrakis seeks information about the voting machines, not sure what he knew that started this
Fitrakis is unable to get the info from FOIA
Fitrakis gets help from Wikileaks and the person posting on DU mentioned also a person in Husted's office
Anonymous posts that it knows something about what Rove is up to and they're watching him
Fitrakis gets the leaked/hacked document that is a contract about the experimental patches 2 weeks before election
Fitrakis tries to get an injunction
Colombus Freepress.org related person posts on DU about wikileaks connection in answer to a question about source
Fitrakis writes a lot of articles for freepress that manage also to bring attention to his own Green Party campaign
Fitrakis gets the word out about the patches but there is no more information after the election.
I think that there are multiple motives, most of them well meant but there was some overreaction and a tad of self serving regarding Fitrakis and his campaign being pushed simultaneously. The admirable attempt here was to control the machinations of Husted. Luckily we didn't have to really find out more since Ohio wasn't needed. However, after making claims about the patches we need follow up. I think we're not hearing more because it wasn't much more than this and there were no definitive results regarding the use of the patches.