HOW USA SCHLOTZMAN TARGETED ACORN: Election Reform, Fraud, & News Sunday 05/06/07

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HOW USA SCHLOTZMAN TARGETED ACORN: Election Reform, Fraud, & News Sunday 05/06/07




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1. Nat: NPR: Attorneys Scandal May Be Tied to Missouri Voting

Attorneys Scandal May Be Tied to Missouri Voting

Frank Morris
All Things Considered, NPR
Audio Player
May 3, 2007
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9981606

All Things Considered, May 3, 2007 · The Justice Department's push to remove U.S. attorneys in 2006 might have been larger than the eight cases that have been discussed in Congress. Other U.S. attorneys' names were on a list the agency compiled in January 2006 — the prosecutor who replaced one of them was the first to be named under the Patriot Act.

One of the federal prosecutors on the list was U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri Todd Graves. Graves resigned last year, before the forced dismissals took place. He left several months after refusing to sign off on a voter-registration lawsuit that was filed against the state of Missouri by an acting assistant attorney general, Bradley Schlozman.

Less than two weeks later, Schlozman was installed to replace Graves under a Patriot Act provision allowing President Bush to place Schlozman in the job without Senate confirmation.

Schlozman went on to bring voter-fraud charges against members of the liberal group ACORN, less than a week before the hotly contested Missouri Senate election.

In the ACORN case, workers there had been accused of submitting blatantly false registration forms. But by the time of Schlozman's filing, ACORN had fired the workers weeks earlier and turned them over to law enforcement officials.

Schlozman has now returned to Justice Department headquarters in Washington. He left Kansas City last month, just a couple of days before a federal judge threw out the lawsuit he brought against the state of Missouri.
to be asked, and more answers under oath need to be given
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9981606

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2. Nat: Missouri attorney a focus in firings; Schlotzman now handles cybercrime for DoJ

Missouri attorney a focus in firings
Senate bypassed in appointment of Schlozman
Bradley Schlozman now works handling sentencing matters and cybercrime for the Justice Department.

Charlie Savage
The Boston Globe
May 6, 2007
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/06/missouri_attorney_a_focus_in_firings/

WASHINGTON -- Todd Graves brought just four misdemeanor voter fraud indictments during his five years as the US attorney for western Missouri -- even though some of his fellow Republicans in the closely divided state wanted stricter oversight of Democratic efforts to sign up new voters.

Then, in March 2006, Graves was replaced by a new US attorney -- one who had no prosecutorial experience and bypassed Senate confirmation. Bradley Schlozman moved aggressively where Graves had not, announcing felony indictments of four workers for a liberal activist group on voter registration fraud charges less than a week before the 2006 election.

Republicans, who had been pushing for restrictive new voting laws, applauded. But critics said Schlozman violated a department policy to wait until after an election to bring voter fraud indictments if the case could affect the outcome, either by becoming a campaign issue or by scaring legitimate voters into staying home.

Schlozman is emerging as a focal point of the investigation into the firing of eight US attorneys last year -- and as a symbol of broader complaints that the Bush administration has misused its stewardship of law enforcement to give Republicans an electoral edge.

No stranger to election law controversy, Schlozman previously spent three years as a political appointee in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, where he supervised the voting rights section.

There, he came into conflict with veteran staff over his decisions to approve a Texas redistricting plan and a Georgia photo-ID voting law, both of which benefited Republicans. He also hired many new career lawyers with strong conservative credentials, in what critics say was an attempt to reduce enforcement of laws designed to eliminate obstacles to voting by minorities.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/05/06/missouri_attorney_a_focus_in_firings/

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3. Nat: TMP: DoJ: What Policy?

DoJ: What Policy?

Paul Kiel
TMPMudracker
May 4, 2007, 6:23 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/

I'd be remiss if I didn't link to McClatchy's great big picture story on GOP efforts to hype voter fraud efforts in Missouri last election cycle.

Bradley Schlozman, of course, was a major part of that effort. He was dispatched to be the U.S. attorney in Kansas City, and as I reported earlier this week and as McClatchy reports, he brought indictments against four ACORN workers just five days before the election on voter fraud charges.

Those indictments flew in the face of longstanding Justice Department policy not to conduct election crime investigations shortly before an election. I won't repeat my earlier reporting on this here, but suffice it to say that the investigation appears to have been conducted with some haste in order to land the indictments before the election.

No reasonable person could argue that Schlozman's indictments were not a gross breach of department policy. But that doesn't mean that the Justice Department isn't trying.
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/

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4. KS: The name to watch: Bradley Schlozman.

Questions arise about former U.S. attorney in KC
The name to watch: Bradley Schlozman

Steve Kraske
The Kansas City Star
Mat 6, 2007
http://www.kansascity.com/153/story/95985.html

As the volume over the U.S. attorney scandal in Washington ratchets up, western Missouri’s former U.S. attorney looms as an increasingly intriguing figure.

In short, he’s the guy Democrats might want to grill.

The most pressing questions center on his actions as acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division before he arrived here, why he came to Kansas City in the first place, and his decision to announce indictments of four voter registration workers five days before the 2006 election.

In short, Schlozman embodies much of the controversy swirling around a Justice Department now accused of expanding its focus beyond jailing bad guys to giving an edge to Republicans at election time.

Working in the Civil Rights Division, Schlozman ruffled feathers when he overruled a Justice Department staff decision to challenge a voter ID law in Georgia. (Democrats don’t like those laws because they say that poor voters, many of whom are Democrats, are unfairly targeted.)

Schlozman also faced accusations that he was involved in redistricting work in the South that hurt minority voters.

About a year before the 2006 midterm elections, Schlozman authorized a lawsuit that accused Missouri of failing to maintain voter rolls around the state. That lawsuit was tossed out last month, but not before Democrats accused Schlozman of pushing the suit as a way to discourage voters and dampen Democratic turnout.

Then there are questions about his hiring practices in the division. Was he focusing on political credentials rather than legal credentials in the lawyers that he hired? Schlozman says no, but Democrats aren’t so sure.

His arrival in Kansas City raised eyebrows. He was named the successor to the outgoing U.S. attorney, Todd Graves, without Senate confirmation under a new Patriot Act guideline that allowed such appointments. It was also unusual for interim U.S. attorneys to come from the ranks of Justice Department staff. A more traditional route is for first assistant U.S. attorneys working in the office to get interim appointments.

We now know that Schlozman rode into town after Graves was targeted for removal along with 11 other U.S. attorneys around the country. The motive for Graves’ removal remains a mystery, although some have suggested that he somehow wasn’t loyal enough to the Bush administration.

Once here, Schlozman continued his pursuit of the voter rolls case — a decision that makes some sense given the sorry state of those rolls in Missouri.

Then, five days before the 2006 election, he obtained indictments on four workers involved in a voter registration drive for ACORN, a Democratic-leaning group.
http://www.kansascity.com/153/story/95985.html

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5. MO: TMPCafe: Voter Fraud Used to Gain Political Leverage in MO

Voter Fraud Used to Gain Political Leverage in MO

Erin Ferns
Project Vote, TMPCafe
May 4, 2007
http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/blog/project_vote/2007/may/04/voter_fraud_used_to_gain_political_leverage_in_mo

This an entry in a series of blogs to keep people informed on current election reform and voting rights issues in the news.

Featured Stories of the Week:

2006 Missouri's election was ground zero for GOP – McClatchy Newspapers

Controversial USA Delivered "Voter Fraud" Indictments Right on Time – TPMmuckraker.com

Reports in recent weeks surrounding the issue of so-called “voter fraud” have revealed calculated partisan efforts to suppress low income and minority voters using the full weight of the US Department of Justice. This week's featured stories outline the great lengths that the Bush administration went to in order to ensure the “wrong” people wouldn't vote – organized efforts that extended to the Department of Justice.

Partisan operatives used strict voter ID requirements, voter roll purges and overzealous regulation of “liberal get-out-the-vote drives” in Missouri as “part of a wider effort to protect the GOP majority in Congress,” according to McClatchy Newspapers.

Greg Gordon writes that U.S. Attorney for Kansas City Bradley Schlozman used “voter fraud” to stifle the voter registration drive of ACORN, a community organization representing low- and moderate-income families. Just five days before the 2006 election, Schlozman brought headline-generating indictments against four voter registration workers employed by the organization in Kansas City.

Former Chief of the Justice Department's Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division Joe Rich has said that bringing such indictments before an election is not common practice and is expressly prohibited by internal Justice Department guidelines, according to TPMmuckraker.com. Writer Paul Kiel reveals that the haste to prosecute the voter registration workers before the election also lead to a huge mistake – indictment of the wrong person. Although Scholzman called his effort part of a “national investigation,” only six registration cards were in question. These cases were not unlike the ones which recently fired U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias “declined to prosecute, saying he saw no intent to influence the outcome of an election.”

But the story doesn’t stop there. Earlier, in St. Louis, local officials, led by local political appointee, Scott Leiendecker, tried to stop 5,000 people who registered to vote through ACORN from being added to the rolls. These 5,000 voters were sent letters in late October 2006 warning that their applications wouldn’t be processed if they did not respond by letter and phone to confirm their identity. They sent a second notice rescinding their warning when Project Vote and Advancement Project threatened to sue.

Questioning the credentials of 5,000 applicants wasn’t the only game being played with the voter lists. In 2005, Scholzman authorized a Justice Department lawsuit, alleging that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan's office had not made a “'reasonable effort'” to remove ineligible voters from the rolls. The suit was thrown out on April 13 when a federal judge said the “government had provided no evidence of voter fraud.” Before the 2006 election, the Supreme Court declared Missouri's narrowly passed voter ID law unconstitutional. The law was drafted with the assistance of St. Louis lawyer Mark “Thor” Hearne, who worked as national counsel to President Bush's reelection campaign and later “set up a non-profit group to publicize incidents of alleged voter fraud.”

Gordon and Kiel’s reports show that the real crime marring the integrity of our elections is not voter fraud, but the attempt to gain partisan advantage through manipulation of the federal government.
http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/blog/project_vote/2007/may/04/voter_fraud_used_to_gain_political_leverage_in_mo

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6. FL: Jennings tries to stand test of time

Jennings tries to stand test of time

Stacey Eidson
The Brandenton Herald, Saratosa FL
May 6, 2006
http://www.bradenton.com/186/story/41249.html

SARASOTA --Last fall, Christine Jennings watched as election returns rolled in late into the night Nov. 7 at her reception at Michael's on East in Sarasota.

Surrounded by supporters, Jennings remained upbeat.

As the Democratic candidate in the District 13 congressional race, Jennings had spent months engaged in one of the most contentious and expensive campaigns in the nation against Republican Vern Buchanan.

It would all soon be over. Or at least that is what she thought.

But reports earlier in the day of voting irregularities at the polls were already foreshadowing what lay ahead.

When Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent reported more than 18,000 undervotes were recorded in the congressional race and that less than 370 votes separated Jennings from Buchanan, questions were immediately raised.

Jennings quickly requested a recount as reports of "disappearing votes" became rampant in Sarasota County.

That was the beginning of a six-month journey that would result in Florida deciding to replace all of its touch-screen voting machines with systems that include paper trails and cause a U.S. House task force to demand a federal investigation of the District 13 election.

Left hanging in the balance is Jennings. Six months after the election, she is still waiting for answers. Still hoping that one day she will be referred to as, "Congresswoman Jennings."

"It has been a long six months, but I'm not bitter," Jennings said. "I think that we are helping everyone in the United States, frankly, because we have kept this at the forefront of the voting agenda. And I'm hopeful. I'm still hopeful that the investigation will give us an opportunity to have another election."

After learning last week that the House panel called for the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, to review the touch-screen machines used in Sarasota County's November election, Jennings said she experienced "pure relief and joy.

"Many of us have worked a long time for the opportunity to put the hardware and software of those machines together to see what happened," Jennings said. "I mean, how can you just say to people, 'Your vote doesn't count.' I continually hear new stories from people about their voting problems on election day. I heard a man . . . who said he had a split screen when he voted. Vern's name was on the bottom of page one and my name was on the top of page two. Something went terribly wrong."

Getting to the source

For months, Jennings tried to gain access to the computer software and source code of the controversial touch-screen machines, but was denied by a Leon County circuit court judge, who ruled test results on the machines "revealed 100 percent accuracy."

Jennings has appealed the circuit court's decision, but has been waiting more than two months for a hearing.

http://www.bradenton.com/186/story/41249.html

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7. FL: Justice delayed

Justice delayed
Court's slow process pushes District 13 case into political arena

The Herald Tribune, Sarasota FL
May 4, 2006
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/OPINION/705040447/1030

If you're frustrated that Christine Jennings' contesting of the District 13 congressional election hasn't yet been settled, you're not alone.

For months, the case has stewed in Florida's 1st District Court of Appeal. That's in Tallahassee -- a long way from affected voters in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte and the other counties involved in this disputed congressional seat. They can't just pop over to the courthouse for an answer to their questions.

Will the appellate judges conclude that the ultra-close vote count was credible? Will they accept the results of an in-depth state investigation that found no evidence of fraud or machine malfunction? Will they grant Jennings' request to launch her own examination of Sarasota's undervote-plagued touch-screen equipment? And just when will they make up their minds?

Who knows?

Jennings' legal challenge supposedly is being handled on an "expedited" basis. But, six months after the election, ask court officials what's happening and they'll simply tell you that "Case Number: 1D07-11" is "pending." The numerous claims and counterclaims filed by the various parties aren't even available to read online.

We respect the judicial branch and know it can't be rushed into a decision. But the distance and the ambiguity in this important case left such a vacuum that a U.S. House panel -- which normally defers to the courts -- has now stepped in. The panel voted 2-1 this week to have the federal Government Accountability Office investigate the District 13 election.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/OPINION/705040447/1030

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8. FL: ES&S firmware changes never made

ES&S firmware changes never made

Letter to the Editor
The Herald Tribune, Sarasota FL
May 5, 2007
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070505/OPINION/705050681/1029

Thank you for placing the "Election dispute sent to independent agency" article on Page 1 of Thursday's newspaper. It is that important.

However, I would like to remind your readers that Election Systems & Software did advise Sarasota County's elections office, in a letter to Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent, that the firmware in our touch-screen voting machines required "changes" to "avoid any potential issues at the polls."

These changes were disregarded and not made in time for our September election, nor were they in place for November 2006. We will be voting again this year in November. Will the changes be in place then?

This makes a very strong case for a revote of our November 2006 election, but not on these machines.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070505/OPINION/705050681/1029

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9. FL: New voting machine choice is little more than a coin flip

New voting machine choice is little more than a coin flip

Jack Gurney
The Venice Gondolier Sun
May 6, 2007
http://www.venicegondolier.com/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=050607&story=tp2vn7.htm&folder=NewsArchive3

While there is still a remote chance Sarasota County could order a mail-in referendum this Nov. 6 on whether to extend the 1-cent local option sales tax, voters will probably be asked to decide the issue on new optical-scan machines that only two manufacturers produce.

The windfall of $2 million or more for either firm -- Diebold Elections Systems or Elections Systems & Software -- will occur this summer because Florida officials only certify their machines for general elections that include state and national races and issues.

A third competing company, Sequoia Voting Systems, also produces optical-scan machines, but a model it has submitted for state certification will not have received the stamp of approval in time for the advisory committee's consideration.

"There are pros and cons with both of these machines," Elections Supervisor Kathy Dent said, "but we'll make it work. Once a contract is signed, it will take about 90 days to have the machines here and ready. The companies have enough available."

Elections Systems and Software produced 1,615 paperless machines the county bought for more than $4 million in 2001, and local voters decided to replace last fall with equipment that produces a paper trail for recounts after close elections.

Ironically, the contract for replacement equipment may end up going to ES&S because it could better afford to take the 6-year-old machines in trade.

"We already have two high-speed ES&S readers," Dent said, "plus software we wouldn't have to purchase."

In the mail?

While the advisory committee continues to deliberate which machine it will recommend, Dent and her staff might get a little breathing room if the Florida Legislature agrees to a provision that would allow cities and counties to conduct mail-in elections on local issues.

District 69 State Rep. Keith Fitzgerald, D-Sarasota, submitted a bill this spring that would have allowed the county to conduct mail-in elections across the board, but Republican leaders in the House of Representatives told him it wouldn't fly.
http://www.venicegondolier.com/Newsstory.cfm?pubdate=050607&story=tp2vn7.htm&folder=NewsArchive3

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10. Nat: CBS: Florida Dumps Touch-Screen Voting Machines

Florida Dumps Touch-Screen Voting Machines
State Will Shift From Controversial Electronic Systems To Ballots With Verifiable Paper Trails

CBS News, AP
May 5, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/05/politics/main2763769.shtml

With one large bill passed in the state Legislature, Florida tried to slam the door on a rocky electoral past and bared itself for more elections scrutiny.

Touch-screen voting machines used in 15 counties will soon be discarded for a verifiable paper-trail system, a move borne out of both the political climate and real concerns that the machines are unreliable.

And, ignoring national party threats and angering other states, Florida will likely be the fourth state to choose the presidential nominees next January.

Voters in 15 counties — comprising about 50 percent of the Florida electorate — will make that choice on touch-screen machines because there won't be enough time to make the changeover before the Jan. 29 vote. Supervisors of elections in those counties will be gearing up for the changeover to optical-scan systems while conducting the election using technology on the way out.

"For the general election it all should be in place," Gov. Charlie Crist said Saturday. He is expected to sign the bill (HB 537) in the next month or so. "Would I rather it be sooner than later? Sure I would. But I'm darn glad it's going to happen now."

Before Florida reaches what Secretary of State Kurt Browning called the "end of the line" of elections evolution — a verifiable paper trail —it has decided to brighten the national spotlight that was first cast on it in 2000, and switched back on in November in a still-disputed congressional race.

"Hopefully the presidential primary won't be a repeat of our election but if we get our investigation completed in time that will help us not only find out what happened in November but hopefully prevent it from happening in January," said David Kochman, a spokesman for Democrat Christine Jennings, who is still contesting her 369-vote defeat to Republican Vern Buchanan in District 13.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/05/politics/main2763769.shtml

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11. TX: With clock ticking, legislators rush to solve nonexistent problems

With clock ticking, legislators rush to solve nonexistent problems

Arnold Garcia Jr., Editorial Page Editor
Austin American-Statesman
May 6, 2007
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/05/06/6garcia_edit.html

With a little surplus money to play with and no federal judge breathing down their necks, Texas legislators are taking advantage of the lull to fix things that aren't broken.

If you wonder about the rush to celebrate guns, honor God and dump on people who can't dump back, look at a calendar. We're almost halfway through 2007, so we're burning daylight before the 2008 elections.
The justification for one voter identification bill, authored by state Rep. Betty Brown, R-Athens, was deterring voter fraud by demanding that voters present a form of photo ID.

Never mind that what voter fraud there is involves mailed ballots. So, the real fix to the problem would have been a demand that mail-in voters put photo IDs in the envelope. Right?

Well, that makes just as much sense as this bill.

The bill perpetrates a myth that illegal immigrants — and we all know from where — are storming polling places and stealing elections.

Pardon me, but I vote in a precinct that has more than its share of immigrants in its boundaries and I vote every time there's an election.

You know, I haven't seen that phenomenon I've heard described. Maybe there was outbreak of illegal voting in the Woodlands or the Lake Travis boxes that went unreported, but I haven't seen it in my precinct.

In fact, my precinct has a fairly low turnout, so red-blooded Americans don't bother to show up to vote, fraudulently or otherwise.

Then there was the bill, sponsored by state Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs, that expanded the so-called "castle doctrine." The castle doctrine offers Texans who use deadly force to protect themselves or their homes a defense if criminal charges are filed in the aftermath of a fatal encounter.

Rose's bill would extend the castle doctrine to cover automobiles. Texas juries — grand and petit — have historically been sympathetic to self-defense claims, so what are we fixing here?

What we're fixing is a Democrat's political grip in a gun-friendly district.

What we're fixing with voter ID proposals is a problem perceived by Republican diehards who may honestly believe that illegal immigrants are dropping their hammers to storm polling places but can't muster proof of that.
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/stories/05/06/6garcia_edit.html

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12. TX: Senator returns, vows to block voter ID bill in session's final days

Senator returns, vows to block voter ID bill in session's final days

10KTEN.com
May 6, 2007
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6467221

AUSTIN An ill Democrat appears to hold the pivotal vote over what form of I-D Texans must show to cast a ballot.

Senator Mario Gallegos of Houston has been away most of the legislative session after a liver transplant.

He showed up today to join Democrats opposing the voter I-D bill.

Under Senate rules, two-thirds of the chamber, or 21 senators, must agree to bring a bill up for debate. With Gallegos present, the eleven Democrats have enough power to block it.

Gallegos says he'll every day for the rest of the session to help stop the bill.

The legislative session ends May 28th.

The House already passed the measure, which would require voters to show photo I-D or two other forms of identification at the polling place.

The voter identification bill is HB 218.
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=6467221

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13. Nat: Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers [Repost]

Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers

Thanks kdawson
April 24, 2007, @02:02PM
from the something-rotten-in-the-state-of-Ohio dept.
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/24/1735213.shtml
goombah99 writes
"Netcraft is showing that an event happened in the Ohio 2004 election that is difficult to explain. The Secretary of State's website, which handles election reporting, normally is directed to an Ohio-based IP address hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center. On Nov. 3 2004, Netcraft shows the website pointing out of state to a server owned by Smartech Corp. According to the American Registry on Internet Numbers, Smartech's block of IP addresses 64.203.96.0 – 64.203.111.255 encompasses the entire range of addresses owned by the Republican National Committee. Smartech hosted the recently notorious gbw43.com domain used from the White House in apparent violation of the Presidential Records Act, from which thousands of White House emails vanished."
Update: 04/25 01:24 GMT by KD : ePluribus Media published a piece called Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again on election eve 2006, when a similar DNS switch to Smartech occurred. They have been investigating the larger story of IT on Capitol Hill and elsewhere for two years.
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/04/24/1735213.shtml

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14. Nat: Ohio Election Night Results, Smartech server, and Netcraft [Repost]

Ohio Election Night Results, Smartech server, and Netcraft, links

Thanks luaptifer
ePluribus Media.
Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 12:11:57 AM EST
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/4/24/17510/5470

Researchers at ePluribusMedia have published a number of stories related to the people and events that are related to the results of Ohio's elections, the servers delivering results from Smartech-registered IP adddresses, and the discovery of Election Night 2004 IP address changes recorded by Netcraft.

The Free Press updated their record of what happened in Ohio, recently, after a review of the work of ourselves and others and integrated that information into their prior knowledge of events. In The Free Press original, The GOP's cyber election hit squad, Stephen Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis appropriately cited our work but as the story has spread, others have not.

We thought to help correct that problem with a summary list of these stories in one place, for the convenience of those seeking source articles.

Please read and consider the implications of our work carefully. Much is being speculated but that speculation may not hold true of our results.

Update <2007-4-27 12:38:13 by luaptifer>: thanks to folks at those sites who've updated with appropriate reference or done better, it's much appreciated!

Ohio Election Night Results Server Stories
Ken Blackwell Outsources Ohio Election Results to GOP Internet Operatives, Again
Ohio's election website still sent real-time results to GOP mirror server
Related Stories
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The GOP, GeorgeWBush.com and the line that jumped the Congressional Firewall
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More email server evidence for Rep. Waxman
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.org/story/2007/4/24/17510/5470

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15. K & R nm

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16. K&R.

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17. It's official, Milwaukee Democrats recognize electoin fraud!

Brief check in while on vacation produced this;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x835400

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18. Thanks for your great work!

Can't fool those Wisconsinites!
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19. Missouri attorney a focus in USA firings = Bradley Schlozman

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x832164

ACORN Takes Control of High-Level GOP Front Group ACVR's Internet Domain Names!
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4519
Abandoned Webspace of White House-Connected 'Voter Fraud' Group, 'American Center For Voting Rights', Purchased by DC Attorney; Handed Over to Non-Profit Which They Had Targeted for Years!

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LOTS MORE LINKS