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In reply to the discussion: How Karl Rove fixed the FBI investigation of his theft of the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio [View all]Cliff Arnebeck
(305 posts)But for the work of CASE-Ohio, led by Susan Truitt, Ohio would not have had as many paper ballots in the 2004 election. CASE-Ohio pushed for legislation that required DRE machines to have a paper trail.
In the 2012 election we believe the credible threat of a manual recount at the expense of ES&S of ballots cast in counties to which ES&S had attached secret software patches just before the election scared ES&S and the Republican Secretary of State into "nixing the fix."
This is written up by Lou Dubose in the January Issue of the Washington Spectator, and republished at ElectionProtectionAction.org.
The threat of a court supervised post election audit--made credible by the testimony/affidavit of NSA expert Mikey Duniho and of which Karl Rove was unaware--explains Karl Rove's election night meltdown over the Ohio call by Fox News.