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 Gonzales’s firing of eight federal prosecutors.

The Free Press.

This second link is the best forensic site giving background and netcraft screenshots of the server switches out of Ohio to SmartTech in Chattanooga.

Within a month Bush first took office, Connell’s GovTech became the first private corporation to gain access behind the firewall of all Congress’ computer servers.

This means that he and the GOP can basically spy on every single House committee without worry.

“All their emails. All their folders. Anything that has to do with their web technology, he knows what’s going on,” Kimberlin said.

So who helped get Connell the contract?

Bob Ney.

This is the same Republican congressman who launched paperless electronic voting in the United States with the “Help America Vote Act.”

The former representative of Ohio’s 18th congressional district has since resigned from Congress in 2006.

Why?

He pled guilty to charges of conspiracy and false claims in the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal.

So Connell’s company wasn’t nicknamed the “Bell Labs of the GOP” by its employees for nothing!

“He’s received the largest percentage of money from the RNC GOP of any company — over $20 million — since Bush took office that we know of,” Kimberlin added. “We have lists of GOP websites and IT work that SmartTech handles.”

Kimberlin’s whistleblowers also connected Connell’s SmartTech with the U.S. attorney scandal.

“Karl Rove used off-the-grid servers so that he wouldn’t have to comply with saving the emails. These SmartTech servers are the same servers that run the GWB43 White House email system and that ran the Ohio election results,” he said.

It’s all according to the Republican’s corrupt plan to take over the U.S. government, Kimberlin explained.

The “visible strategy” included such tactics as congressional redistricting to maximize voter turnout for GOP candidates.

The “invisible strategy,” though, amounted to utilizing technology systems to limit voter turnout for non-GOP candidates.

Lonestaricon.

And you’re right, this story needs a better vector than it’s had, and, without wanting to seem presumptuous, EW seems IMHO like the sharpest tool in that particular drawer.

The subcommittee is considering legislation aimed at curbing offshore tax abuses. On Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on offshore banking practices in the Cayman Islands. The committee was looking at more than 18,500 companies that claim to have offices in a single building there.

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“code adjusts in real time on tabulators to “TOMB” the results.”

Funded by tobacco industry…disgusting…

EW this needs to be covered by you or FDL.