New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked

[mod mom]

New court filing reveals how the 2004 Ohio presidential election was hacked
by Bob Fitrakis
July 19, 2011

A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio's 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.

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.


Prior to the filing, 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."

-snip

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2011/4239

SOS Election Production System Configuration for Web Results Entry, EN Staff Results Entry and Web Queries 11/02/04

http://freepress.org/images/departments/4237/ClevExIArchMap2004Ohioelection.pdf

[Kurmudgeon]

1. I really really REALLY hope the international media doesn't ignore this.

[ThomWV]

16. Me too because we have no domestic media anymore (except Keith)

[spooked911]

59. did Olbermann cover vote fraud in 2004?

I seem to remember almost every liberal site blacking out coverage of the vote scam of 2004.

[SaveAmerica]

73. Yes, he was on it like crazy. It's why I became a cult follower of his. He gave us a voice,

I think he was even getting info from here at DU.

[BlueCaliDem]

93. Keith, together with David Schuster, reported extensively on Countdown in 2004

and asked the hard questions regarding the long lines, the lack of voting booths in Democratic heavy areas, the over abundance of voting booths in Republican strongholds, and even followed Senator Barbara Boxer who stood with the CBC to protest the electoral college count in January 2005.

He was the ONLY one who did.

[Agony]

67. Democracy Now! has covered this issue since it happened

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plane

http://www.democracynow.org/2005/11/4/was_the_2004_election_stolen_a

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/17/harvey_wasserman_on_new_ohio_voting

DN! deserves credit for this.

:hi:


Cheers,
Agony

[ejbr]

42. Maybe we should start emailing the story to foreign media n/t

[blank space]

70. Funny -

Already on it mate.

[roxiejules]

104. Russia Today covered the story back in Dec. 2008

And they did a good job:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvdeMeVrQNE&feature=related


Looks like it was the US that had the media blackout.

[certainot]

46. imagine if dems had 1000 unchallenged coordinated radio stations. instead ACORN and wiener go down

just a few of the many trophies on limbaugh's wall.

and the left has NO organized response.

[Enthusiast]

108. As we can see by Murdoch's excesses in the UK,

the fascists are making inroads on that international media.

[RedCloud]

127. remember how 9/12 revealed how Bush stole the election?

Oh that's right, something more "convenient" happened the day prior and the BBC report does not get released.

[SammyWinstonJack]

131. I remember.

x(

[emulatorloo]

2. Thank you for posting this. Rec n/t

[midnight]

3. I'm glad we are still talking about this. Rove has brought this to Wiscosnin.

GAB, Kathy Nicolas and crew have had some new software created for such occasions as to put in Ron Johnson, Prosser, Walker and other AlEC Bots.... Please let me know if any legal aciton will be taken to stop election fraud.... Right now I wish I had information explaining Barbara Wirth's complaint about how a March 30 voter receipts was calculated before anyone voted on the machines? Then I want to know how many of those votes were for Prosser.... Thanks...

[mod mom]

7. Just think, if the media did their job back then or even reviewed the evidence

we procured, what much better shape this country would be in.

[Snotcicles]

4. We all knew Ohio was rigged, that blackwell was scum. I wonder if that is how Kasich got elected. nt

[defendandprotect]

23. We all knew -- but Democratic Party certainly ignored it -- save for Conyers -- !!

[yardwork]

55. The Democratic Party has a lot to answer for - they covered up for the Republicans.

I often wonder how deep the vote rigging goes.

[spooked911]

61. indeed. I suspect that they work together to cover up the deepest crimes in which they are both

complicit to some degree. 9/11, for instance.

[yardwork]

63. Republicans and Republican-Lite.

[KoKo]

78. Well...we didn't know it wasn't just Repugs at the time. As Time goes on more is revealed

and we become wiser consumers and voters.

[defendandprotect]

103. Actually, intended this post for you ....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1529663&mesg_id=1536550


:hi:

[Enthusiast]

111. Same criminal group underneath it all. nt

[defendandprotect]

100. SILENCE of Dem Party on so many issues ... is a message in itself -- !!

[Enthusiast]

112. Damn good point!....nt

[defendandprotect]

102. Don't know if you're familiar ....

with Votescam --

VOTESCAM -- THE STEALING OF AMERICA --

http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm


In the mid and late 1960's the computers began to come in --

LARGE ones used by MSM which gave them new powers to PREDICT and CALL elections --

PREDICT and CALL Electoral College Votes -- and call elections for presidential candidates --

What we saw in 2000 was simply a reversal of those new powers!!


The smaller voting computers were coming into Florida in the late 1960's and two Florida

journalists began to investigate the unlikely and unverifiable election results --

They also passed their info on to Larry O'Brien at the DNC in the Watergate building --

the information was left for him as he wasn't there at the time.

This was just before "Watergate" --


They had a contract for a book which was delivered to book stores and then immediately

removed from the shelves. It's available here and there for $3 a copy --

and/or you can read it at the website --


I'd question every election back to Nixon/Humphrey --

I don't think there ever was a "Southern Strategy" -- I think there ws only the computers!

[pam4water]

106. Now now you are looking backwards...

:sarcasm:


I'll never understand why there didn't fight in 2000 or 2004

[SaveAmerica]

74. Conyers, my hero!! They forced his inquiry into the basement of the House of Rep.

[KoKo]

79. We were the ones who raised HOLY HELL that got Conyers to hold those Basement Hearings

though! Remember even Barbara Boxer came over from the Senate to the hearings? We were all here on DU doing "running threads" from C-Span to watch it all. Those were the Good Old Days... When we still had HOPE and BELIEVED. It was an interesting time.

[SaveAmerica]

129. You said it all in one post, that is EXACTLY how I feel! I printed all the best discussions from

that time because I knew no one would believe it in the future, it was being swept under the rug so well. (And that's why I love Conyers so much, he was one of the few who listened to the people and acted on the wrongs done).

[defendandprotect]

151. +1 --

Created a bit of hope --

Showed the system for what it really was -- "forcing Dems into the basement" --

and an impotent Dem Party --

That message was coming not only from GOP in its arrogance -- but from the

Democratic Party in its silence -- !!


:(

[wiggs]

145. Even conyers ignored it after 2006 whem dems in power. nt

[Enthusiast]

109. Blackwell is still scum.

I don't trust the election results where any Republican "wins".

[thereismore]

5. Blackwell served Bushes well. nt

[myrna minx]

6. K&R n/t

[Snotcicles]

8. Rachel Anne Maddow, cover this. nt

[mod mom]

9. MSNBC? Remember how abruptly KO ended coverage? It's Keith we should reach out to!

Anyone have contact info for him? got it: [e-mail]

please consider joining me in forwarding this to Keith

[EFerrari]

17. Keith backed off because Bev Harris behaved like Bev Harris.

We need a sane person to present. Like you, mod mom.

[mod mom]

18. I think there might be more to this.

KO had Bob, Cliff (who btw was a former republican who served as Bob Doles legal counsel during his presidential run) and Susan, who as attorneys as well as direct witnesses could provide insight & expertise.

[EFerrari]

19. Well, the new venue might obviate whatever happened before.

We know he was interested.

[RaleighNCDUer]

146. Bev Harris may be nuts

but hat doesn't mean she's wrong.

[malaise]

10. K & R

Connell died a strange death.

[Myrina]

137. Not a strange death for anyone with dirt on the BFEE ...

:hide:

[cmd]

141. Very strange. Plane goes down flying over Diebold hq.

Just a coincidence? Right?

[liberalla]

11. God I hope this goes someplace.

K&R for the hard work in continuing this case. I'm glad it's still in the courts. I wonder if the backlash against Repubs in Ohio will make a difference.

:kick:

[socialist_n_TN]

12. Yet everybody seems to thiink we can just

vote the bums out. They not only steal elections, but they will kill to cover it up. I still say vote, but I no longer expect anything out of it.

[SammyWinstonJack]

132. +1000!

:thumbsup: They'll 'fix' 2012 too. :evilgrin:

[glinda]

13. K & R n/t

[EFerrari]

14. George Bush stole two elections and nobody did anything about it. n/t

[Helga Scow Stern]

49. Yes, even here in New Mexico, a Dem gov and SoS destroyed evidence....

questionable ballots that were to be recounted in a pending court case.

[EFerrari]

64. They had something going in just about every swing state

I can think of.

[FogerRox]

15. This is why I joined the Election Reform group at DU in early 2005.

KnR

[MelissaB]

20. Those were the days, eh?

We knew about hacking back then.

[DemReadingDU]

53. me too

I'm in Ohio, and no way could Bush won this state. Had to have been fraud.

[Mojorabbit]

54. Me too. I am so glad this is still being looked at. nt

[suffragette]

69. And why I did in late 2004

Searching on that issue is what led me to DU.

[mod mom]

87. I came just after the (s)election to draw attention to our Investigate all 88 Rally

(ohio has 88 counties) . We had great faith that we could expose what occurred to the world. Very few in the media would even bother to examine the evidence. So sad that ignoring the evidence has lead to this huge mess.

[Raksha]

98. I did the same, except I joined in late 2004 just a few weeks after the election.

DU was the only place I could find where people would talk openly about election fraud.

[fascisthunter]

21. the Crazy "far-left" was RIGHT AGAIN

:hi:

[Enthusiast]

113. Yes, the FAR LEFT crazies.

You know, the professional left.

[barbtries]

125. you ever notice

how often that happens? i'm stumped as to why anyone would listen to or trust a republican at this point.

i'm thinking about the iraq war, colin powell's presentation to the UN. my DIL at the time watched it and believed him...i said, he's lying. well, yeah now most people know he was lying. fox viewers probably not. but we were right.

[fascisthunter]

147. It why the Left is really hated

[defendandprotect]

22. Thank you -- and all of this seems to begin in late 1960's when computers first ....

began to come in --

I'd question every election back to Nixon/Humphrey --

Doubt there ever was a "Southern Strategy" -- probably on computer steals!!


Two journalists in Florida began investigating the odd and unverifiable election

results from computer voting in the late 1960's --

They wrote a book which you can read here -- but it's available here and there for #3.00




Votescam -- The Srealing of America --

http://www.constitution.org/vote/votescam__.htm

These two journalists also passed info from their investigation on to the DNC ..

just before Watergate --

[SpiralHawk]

24. Republicons Against America - cheat and lie to take the nation down

Ptoooey.

[Ignis]

25. K&R

:kick:

[Tennessee Gal]

26. This needs a lot of attention.

Thanks for posting.

[KansDem]

27. Why we're still using electronic voting machines supplied by private companies is beyond me!

This is appalling!!! :grr:

[go west young man]

81. With no paper trail.

[Scuba]

28. K & R

[OneGrassRoot]

29. K&R n/t

[OHdem10]

30. Rec

[theophilus]

31. Kick! Most of the RightWing political crowd should be in prison. n/t

[malaise]

36. Michael Connell

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/25/the-intriguing-death-of-t_n_153518.html
<snip>
At 3:31 PM Friday, December 19, Michael L. Connell, a top Internet consultant for the Republican National Committee and for the Bush and McCain presidential campaigns, left Washington from the small airport in College Park, Md. Alone at the helm of a single engine Piper Saratoga, Connell's flight plan anticipated arrival at his hometown Akron-Canton Airport in a little over two hours, at 5:43 PM.

Instead, about three miles short of the Akron-Canton Airport, Connell's plane crashed to the ground in an upscale section of Lake Township, killing Connell instantly. "I was standing in the kitchen and I looked out the window and all I saw was fire," Taylor Fano told The Akron Beacon Journal. "It took out the flagpole and the cement blocks surrounding the flagpole . . . . It skidded across the driveway and right in-between a line of pine trees and a small fence around an in-ground pool."

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the accident and has not yet filed a report, but there was no immediate evidence of wrong-doing or sabotage.

Many in the blogosphere have called for further investigation of the crash, suggesting that Connell was about to provide crucial information in the case of alleged vote fraud in the 2004 Ohio presidential contest, and that that information would implicate Karl Rove and others in the Bush administration.
---------------
How did that investigation go again?

[Scuba]

32. Not only did Wisconsin Gov't Accountability Board lobby for Diebold...

...machines, but they outsourced the operation of our elections to Accenture (formerly Arthur Andersen of Enron fame).

GAB Director Kevin Kennedy is responsble for these travesties, and MUST GO.

[pinboy3niner]

33. K&R

[GoneOffShore]

34. Thanks for posting this!

[RainDog]

35. k&r n/t

[Rex]

37. Paging Murdoch...paging Rupert Murdoch...

What does he know about it and whose phone did he have tapped at the time?

OH THE SHIT IS GETTING DEEP...REAL DEEP.

[Waiting For Everyman]

38. K&R

[in_cog_ni_to]

39. K&R!!!!!!!!! n/t

[Dappleganger]

40. Please, someone put this on Reddit too.

[JHB]

41. K&R

[FreeBillClinton]

43. I was wondering if this story would ever come out.

[tomp]

44. bush, most influential asterix in american history....

....and a smug asshole too. and fuck karl rove too.

sociopaths run the world and deluded democrats serve them.

[Sheepshank]

45. So how to get the news out to non DU readers? that would make a decent impact n/t

[certainot]

47. goddamned republicans

[CleanGreenFuture]

48. K & R

[Ragrum]

50. REPULSICANS

jimminy cricket...K&R

[Glimmer of Hope]

51. Hmmm.. Does anyone know if this is close to going to trial?

[cyberpj]

52. Too late. Damage done. We all knew it then and we all know it continues today.

I really do think the congress knows too but no one seems to want to tackle the issue. Not really.

[colsohlibgal]

56. Two Terms of Disaster And Never Actually Elected

It all adds up to one hijacked country and how different things would be now minus the Supreme Court coup in 2000 - without that the flipped vote in the Bush/Kerry race would never have happened.

I doubt this gets any traction at all given the state of the media in 2011, sadly.

[Major Hogwash]

76. Neither time, exactly.

Fool me once, we're fucked by the Supreme Court appointment.
Fool me twice, he stole the election in Ohio.

[CrispyQ]

57. k&r

I'll never forget that day. Never. I was an election judge that day. The lines were incredible. The excitement was palpable. Even though it was a long, long day, it went by quickly. I got home just after 9pm MST & they had just announced PA for Kerry & it was looking good in OH. The high I felt was wonderful!

And then, just like that, it went from looking really good for Kerry to Bush. It was freaky. And within a very short time they called it for Bush & I knew the American people had been cheated out of their votes once again. I went to bed in tears & called in sick the next day. And yes, I was genuinely sick. I cried most of the day.

Even though it won't change anything, I would love for the world (& those fucking repubs) to know that we Americans did our job - we voted Bush out, but our votes were stolen.

on edit: The USA is quickly rotting from the head down. I don't know how we can save it, but I've lost all confidence in the electoral process.

[annabanana]

58. We knew this back then. There are so many unresolved messes

that DU can point to the documentation on for any so-called "real journalists" out there who'd like a Pulitzer...

[bleever]

60. 200th rec. Anyone know who the guy in this picture is calling?

Election night 2004, in the White House dining room.

[LaydeeBug]

62. Man!! Sure wished we had someone to FIGHT THAT SHIT. Oh yeah, Edwards wanted to, but noooooooo nt

[patrice]

149. Another example of the kinds of stuff that comes in under the radar with all of this "crossover"

activity . . . make that crossover and back again and then over again and over and over . . . .

I didn't like what John Edwards did either. It was SLEAZY and STUPID. I was real disappointed. But I can't say he's a whole lot worse than a many many others and I think it's real sad that this party is wasting his talents.

[LittleGirl]

65. What took so long?

Those of us in the IT field heard about this at least 5 yrs ago. When the IP address of the vote (holding) server changed at 1am, that was the first clue. That doesn't happen unless someone changes it. That election has fraud written all over it. Didn't they make a documentary about that...why yes, I believe they did. Too bad I can't remember the name of it.

Michael Moore would be proud.

[The Wizard]

66. Karl Rove is usually at the scene of election crimes

He should be hanged for treason, and then shot. Here's a question. Who's done more damage to the United States, Karl Rove or Saddam Hussein?

[TheUnspeakable]

68. K&R

[snagglepuss]

71. K & R nt

[grasswire]

72. I'm going to post here info that I discovered in 2002

I wrote this to myself in 2002, after doing some digging that was way over my pay grade.

..........
11/16/2002

In late 1997, a corporation that had consisted of a solid business in auto parts outlets and industrial supplies began to suddenly buy up companies related to voting machines and election services. The company was Tyler Corporation and the CEO was William Oates, founder of Business Resources Corporation and CEO of Business Records Corporation, which he also started. Tyler Corporation purchased Business Records Corporation in 1998, and Oates replaced Fred Meyer, a Dallas man whose credentials include chairmanship of the George W. Bush inaugural, chairmanship of Victory 2000 (the Bush fundraising campaign) and a Bush family crony for many decades. Tyler Corporation changed its name to Tyler Technologies. According to expert Eve Waxtell, Tyler had/has financial ties to Cronus Corporation, which had purchased companies controlling 80 percent of the voting systems (CES, Thornber, and Governmental Data). There are crossover members of boards of directors between Cronus, Tyler, BRC and other entities in the elections services business.

Here's where it gets interesting. After buying an enormous share of the elections business starting in late 1997 and installing Oates (an elections old hand) as CEO, Tyler started dumping this segment in December 2000. Oates left then. I've lost my notes on the stock sales, but I was following some records of insider trading. C.A. Rundell, CEO of Cronus and a director of Tyler, dumped 65,000 shares of Tyler stock in December 2000, for example. The corporation that went from an auto parts business to elections services and installed a CEO with elections experience began to sell all that in December 2000.

Oates is now (2002) the CEO of another new firm that specializes in data collection for government entities; other directors of that company have Cronus and Tyler ties, and all began at Eastman Kodak, which dabbled in election services until scared off by fraud litigations in the 1980s. Fred Meyer is now the CEO of Aladdin, a company he served for many years earlier in his career (he's now 73).

Is there a story here? Some questions beg to be answered. Why did Fred Meyer leave Tyler in 1997? Did he remain a de facto force? Was Oates hand-picked by Meyer?

It would seem that Tyler Company/Corporation was used as a front in order to gather physical control of a vast segment of election services through the 2000 election. It would seem that Fred Meyer stepped aside (at least in name) because he was too close to the Bushes and the Bush campaign.

I have no background in mergers, acquisitions, the corporate world or the stock market. Some of these corporations have changed names, been bought out, bought up, stopped and re-started, merged, etc. There probably are a lot of ways to track more information that I'm just not familiar with. It is true that things are not always what they seem (skim milk masquerades as cream) but the trail begs following, IMO. The implications are staggering, if the story pans out.
.................

[KoKo]

80. +! Kick!

[grasswire]

91. If I could find that stuff, why can't any credentialed reporter do so?

(I know the answer to that one.)

[Major Hogwash]

75. So Judge Asshole and Judge Buttface shouldn't be sitting on the Supreme Court now, then, huh?

Because they were unofficially appointed by a fraud President.
I thought so all along.

[KoKo]

77. Justice has been waiting for many years on this...let's hope the legs stand. K&R

[seabeyond]

82. i know it was. we all saw, nation wide, when bushcos got the switch, sittin in that yellow room

my repug hubby knew it was. he walked from repug party.

[russspeakeasy]

83. Well, I'll be damned...I thought I was the only one that remembered it.

[Bonobo]

84. Would this be one of those impossible "conspiracy theories"? nt

[INdemo]

85. If Democrats would have had the balls and we would have had

someone besides MCAuliffe as DNC chairman we would have won that election..He was keeping the door open for Hillary for 2008. It was McAuliffe who told Kerry it was a losing fight and he tossed in the towel.

[Blue-Jay]

86. Blackwell has been eyeing Sherrod Brown's senate seat.

I hope this story gets out to a few more frequently seen/heard news sources.

[Firebrand Gary]

88. How nice.....WTF K&R

[Snarkoleptic]

89. We need legislation making tamering with elections an act of treason.

[riderinthestorm]

90. Its too late and I'm too tired to do more than K&R this. Incredible story. nt

[cilla4progress]

92. Of course,

knew it all along...

shit on a stick.

[mckara]

94. Not Surprising, the Bastards!

[garthranzz]

95. Let the people but know the truth...

and to paraphrase Marc Antony, they would rise up and mutiny.

[Blue Owl]

96. Hey Democrats -- DO SOMETHING

FUCKING DO SOMETHING FOR ONCE.

[Solly Mack]

97. K&R

[Raksha]

99. K & R, because it's never too late for justice.

Assuming of course that there's any justice to be had in this country.

[LetTimmySmoke]

101. So the GOP hasn't really won a presidental election since 1988.

I was 7 at the time.

[Divine Discontent]

126. well, that's possible. but we all know there's more Dems than Repubs, and the Dem nominee had a

whopping 17 point lead on Bush Sr after the Democratic Convention, it's hard to say a 17 point lead can be wiped out by a commercial showing black prisoners going in and out of prison instantly. They ran a really sleazy campaign against the very respectful Dukakis, and it was pretty close, but I suppose Bush won, but knowing how they steal thousands of votes, and block thousands more from voting, it honestly was a toss up. They know nothing but corruption! Their last obvious victory was Reagan's 84 landslide.

I hope Rachel covers this, but frankly, there won't be much talk about this at ALL on TV.

[liberalla]

150. The GOP hasn't honestly won a presidential election since Eisenhower

Watch this Thom Hartmann clip as he takes you through it:


Thom Hartmann: Can Republicans get elected without fraud & treason?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x601321

[pam4water]

105. Can we take away GWB library? K&R

[Enthusiast]

107. I will tell you one thing for certain.

This is the reason for the arrogance we see on display by Midwest Republican Governors. They know their people control the election results. What else would explain their complete disregard for alienating a huge number of voters right out of the gate. Think about it.

[byronius]

110. Oh now, come one. Let's be adults about this.

Perhaps George didn't win after all. But what harm could possibly come from letting him have a turn?

Seriously, that was the editorial in the Sacramento Bee the Day After.

I haven't read an issue since.

Fucking evil day.

[Enthusiast]

115. Some value democracy, some not so much.....nt

[AsahinaKimi]

114. MEH...Republicans

わたしはこれがひときらいです。

[Tx4obama]

116. K&R n/t

[blkmusclmachine]

117. Easily hackable election counting software

Proven it works to get "your guy (or gal)" in, votes be damned. And yet the "braintrust" in DC won't "look back," but "only forward" (unless you're a whistleblower, of course).

It's not who casts the vote that counts, but rather who counts the votes that matter.

[Harriety]

118. The Repubs know their way around election fraud for sure. Been doing it for years.

[Judi Lynn]

119. Thank you, mod mom. K & R. n/t

[Pooka Fey]

120. Nothing to see here, Folks. Move along.

[MaeScott]

121. K and R. nt

[Hubert Flottz]

122. Blackwell belongs in jail for the rest of his life.

[Kip Humphrey]

123. I will not forget

http://51CapitalMarch.com

[Liberal In Texas]

124. Well, we have government by bribary and they own the hackable voting system.

Just because the system can be hacked means it should be scrapped.

Every "Voter ID" bill introduced should have an amendment attached by the dems mandating we go back to paper ballots.

[WinkyDink]

128. We need a more significant word than "HACKED" for these CRIMES.

[snot]

139. +1000 -- Indeed, why slur genuine hackers.

[Chimichurri]

130. This makes my blood boil all over again. Get rid of electronic voting machines!

[drm604]

133. This stood out to me.

Bob Magnan, a state IT specialist for the secretary of state during the 2004 election, agreed that there was no failover scenario. Magnan said he was unexpectedly sent home at 9 p.m. on election night and private contractors ran the system for Blackwell.

[Maineman]

134. Against all enemies - foreign AND DOMESTIC

This has to be some sort of crime in the general category of treason. TREASON!

[mdmc]

135. the circle d's folded - didn't fight for their victory

no need for a court hearing - if the winner decides they don't want to win, we lose.

[NCcoast]

136. Please let this finally come to light

I have a feeling that with the fall of Murdoch, the over reaching of the wacky tea party republicans in MI, OH, WI, FL etc., and the willingness of republican to push the country over the economic cliff that Americans are reaching the breaking point. If this story were to rise to the level of general awareness, and Americans became aware that none of this was necessary, that they've be had at every turn, things might just get interesting. We just might stand up and demand the reforms that will give us a responsible government and news media.

[postulater]

140. I envy your optimism.

Please keep it up, most of us are so jaded we can't see that possibility any more.

[ThatsMyBarack]

138. Day. Late. Dollar. Short.

eom

[dbonds]

142. About time. Of course too late.

But maybe we can still jail everyone involved.

[sulphurdunn]

143. Here's the problema

as I see it. Most of the people receive most if not all their news from mainstream corporate owned media. If these media ignore a story it's like it doesn't exist. The minority who access other sources of information can safely be ignored, marginalized or discredited by mainstream media. The question becomes how to make alternative media the new mainstream media.

[spanone]

144. if you can get away with it at the time....you win. no one cares in retrospect ala 'torture'

[patrice]

148. NO KINGS!!!!