2004 Election...

Overheal

http://gizmodo.com/5825014/how-the-2004-presidential-election-may-have-been-hacked

How The 2004 Presidential Election May Have Been Hacked


Kelly Hodgkins —Ohio's 2004 presidential election is one many won't forget. Democrat John Kerry was the leader and exit polls pegged him as the winner. Defying explanation, a last-minute shift in votes favored Republican George W. Bush and propelled him to victory.
New filings in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case sheds some light on how the 2004 election may have been hacked. The story starts with SmartTech, a Tennessee based hosting company with strong Republican ties.
SmarTech was hired by Ohio to provide a failsafe voting server for the rare occasion a network problem occurred. This isn't unusual. All properly managed networked systems have a backup in case of failure.
But in Ohio, there was no significant failure and voting data was unexpectedly switched over to SmarTech late in the voting process. This sudden shift coincides with an increase in votes favorable to Bush. Hmm, is there a mackerel in the room because something smells fishy.
IT security expert Stephen Spoonamore has studied newly released network maps and believes the SmarTech server was not a backup, but a man in the middle server that had the ability to input and alter voting data on the fly. Spoonamore is convinced the election was stolen,

"The computer system and SmarTech had the correct placement, connectivity, and computer experts necessary to change the election in any manner desired by the controllers of the SmarTech computers."

To make things even more intriguing, SmarTech was owned by Michael Connell who mysteriously died in a 2008 single-engine plane crash shortly after being served a subpoena in this case. His full testimony will never be heard. URL="http://www.truth-out.org/new-court-filing-reveals-how-2004-ohio-presidential-election-was-hacked/1311603015"]The Truth[/URL

Wow.

Carcharodon

Haven't read enough to make any sort of relevant comment but nothing surprises me anymore. The average person has no idea of what goes on behind the scenes in the political and corporate world, it is a messed up world with people that will do anything for power and money.

Amerika

Too much of a coincidence if you ask me. He was piloting a Piper Saratoga, which was the same light aircraft piloted that fateful night, years ago by John F Kennedy Jr.

Perhaps Dick Cheney, sitting in his dark and evil lair, has a diabolical box that has the ability to direct a distruptive beam, emitted from any pre-identified airport tower, at the radio frequency of a Piper Saratoga, causing an inability to maintain sufficient airspeed on the airport approach.

Hey... Stranger things have happened! You do remember "The Clinton Flu" right?
http://www.lizmichael.com/clintond.htm

RichieC

I watched a documentary on it before, they proved it was possible to put code on the memory keys of the voting machines that could fiddle the numbers.

I dont think it's a republican/democrat thing. they are just smoke screens that allow voters to think they have a choice.

America has a good cop/ bad cop system.. vote in the republicans piss off the entire world and just as it's getting to breaking point, send in the good cop democrats to clean up the image for a while.

Sticky_Fingers

If the allegations are true I can't see it having any impact whatsoever with regards the conduct of US politics. Sure didn't Bush have to go to the Supreme Court the first time to ensure he "won" the election over Gore. Dirty tricks have been blatantly used in the past to disfranchise people who would not vote for a certain party so this story will unfortunately disappear like a fart in the wind and it will be business as usual.