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Ohio... 2004. It's always bothered me. The Secretary of State was also the head of the Bush reelection committee in that state. The company that handled the compiling from that system, had been an IT guy for Karl Rove.
The exit polls were off by a huge margin. A margin which was statistically impossible (doesn't mean they weren't wrong, but the odds are a really slim. It's only a bit more likely than my getting to marry Queen Victoria, Empress of India). A margin far less than the one the Bush Administration said proved the election in Ukraine, a year later, was fraudulent.
In the course of a lawsuit a map of the system architecture has come out. One that shows the system was, if not designed to allow, completely vulnerable to a man in the middle attack.
Project Censored named the outsourcing of Ohio's 2004 election votes to SmarTech in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a company owned by Republican partisans as one of the most censored stories in the world.
In the Connell deposition, plaintiffs' attorneys questioned Connell regarding gwb43, a website that was live on election night operating out of the White House and tied directly into SmarTech's server stacks in Chattanooga, Tennessee which contained Ohio's 2004 presidential election results.
The transfer of the vote count to SmarTech in Chattanooga, Tennessee remains a mystery. This would have only happened if there was a complete failure of the Ohio computer election system. Connell swore under oath that, "To the best of my knowledge, it was not a fail-over case scenario – or it was not a failover situation."
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.
The architectural maps, contracts, and Spoonamore emails, along with the history of Connell's partisan activities, shed new light on how easy it was to hack the 2004 Ohio presidential election.
Here is the fuller report, with the chart, System Architecture, Ohio 2004 Election
The exit polls were off by a huge margin. A margin which was statistically impossible (doesn't mean they weren't wrong, but the odds are a really slim. It's only a bit more likely than my getting to marry Queen Victoria, Empress of India). A margin far less than the one the Bush Administration said proved the election in Ukraine, a year later, was fraudulent.
In the course of a lawsuit a map of the system architecture has come out. One that shows the system was, if not designed to allow, completely vulnerable to a man in the middle attack.
Project Censored named the outsourcing of Ohio's 2004 election votes to SmarTech in Chattanooga, Tennessee to a company owned by Republican partisans as one of the most censored stories in the world.
In the Connell deposition, plaintiffs' attorneys questioned Connell regarding gwb43, a website that was live on election night operating out of the White House and tied directly into SmarTech's server stacks in Chattanooga, Tennessee which contained Ohio's 2004 presidential election results.
The transfer of the vote count to SmarTech in Chattanooga, Tennessee remains a mystery. This would have only happened if there was a complete failure of the Ohio computer election system. Connell swore under oath that, "To the best of my knowledge, it was not a fail-over case scenario – or it was not a failover situation."
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.
The architectural maps, contracts, and Spoonamore emails, along with the history of Connell's partisan activities, shed new light on how easy it was to hack the 2004 Ohio presidential election.
Here is the fuller report, with the chart, System Architecture, Ohio 2004 Election
