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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Youre not just imagining it: the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump vote totals do look rigged [View all]Snarkoleptic
(6,146 posts)40. Speaking of "main in the middle" attacks.
Here's the story of the mysteriously deceased guy who did Bush's dirty work-
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/2319:new-court-filing-reveals-how-the-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked
The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio's vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush's unexpected victory. Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash.
Additionally, the filing contains the contract signed between then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Connell's company, GovTech Solutions. Also included that contract a graphic architectural map of the Secretary of State's election night server layout system.
Cliff Arnebeck, lead attorney in the King Lincoln case, exchanged emails with IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore. Arnebeck asked Spoonamore whether or not SmarTech had the capability to "input data" and thus alter the results of Ohio's 2004 election. Spoonamore responded: "Yes. They would have had data input capacities. The system might have been set up to log which source generated the data but probably did not."
Spoonamore explained that "they [SmarTech] have full access and could change things when and if they want."
Additionally, the filing contains the contract signed between then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Connell's company, GovTech Solutions. Also included that contract a graphic architectural map of the Secretary of State's election night server layout system.
Cliff Arnebeck, lead attorney in the King Lincoln case, exchanged emails with IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore. Arnebeck asked Spoonamore whether or not SmarTech had the capability to "input data" and thus alter the results of Ohio's 2004 election. Spoonamore responded: "Yes. They would have had data input capacities. The system might have been set up to log which source generated the data but probably did not."
Spoonamore explained that "they [SmarTech] have full access and could change things when and if they want."
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Youre not just imagining it: the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump vote totals do look rigged [View all]
FrenchieCat
Nov 2016
OP
Senate race states have a higher red shift. Battleground states have a higher red shift too.
Coyotl
Nov 2016
#39
He talks about the African American vote as if it's the same. It isn't. It's the first vote
KittyWampus
Nov 2016
#41
I do feel like a lot of people lied and were ashamed to tell people they supported Trump
Fast Walker 52
Nov 2016
#24
I don't ordinarily get into conspiracy theories, but, in light of the hacking that we know occurred
Arkansas Granny
Nov 2016
#8
Not sure about this if you look at the results. Hillary won the two biggest counties by about the...
Bonn1997
Nov 2016
#15
Old: Clumsy Rove-era election fraud New:Sophisticated and subtle Russian hacking
Snarkoleptic
Nov 2016
#22
I remember that info about the SMARTech - GovTech operation, and Connell's 'accident'.
Mc Mike
Nov 2016
#42
Conspiracy theory is a dismissive term, and unworthy of the gravity of the situation.
bigmonkey
Nov 2016
#31
No, math is more factual than our opinions... compounded voter suppression sense 2006
uponit7771
Nov 2016
#34