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In reply to the discussion: Anonymous Claims It Stopped Karl Rove From Hacking The Election By Hacking ORCA [View all]lobointexas
(85 posts)"Vote totals have been sent through servers to election officials before tabulation."
This is the key, because Rove did this in 2004 !!
"There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004, Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website which gave the world the presidential election results was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites,including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzaless firing of eight federal prosecutors. "
"Recent revelations have documented that the Republican National Committee (RNC) ran a secret White House e-mail system for Karl Rove and dozens of White House staffers. This high-tech system used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote from server-hosting contracts, to software-writing services, to remote-access capability, to the actual server usage logs themselves must be added to the growing congressional investigations."
from this site:
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2553
Why wouldn't they try this again? Rove probably had more to gain financially this time. So if Rove was capable of redirecting the election results from an Ohio government server to a Republican server in Tennessee in 2004, why wouldn't someone like "Anonymous" be able to stop him in 2012?