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Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers
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.
Netcraft confirms: Democracy is dead.
Seriously though, this is a rather strange turn of events. And given the Bush administration's history of explaining such strange events, I don't expect a civil debate coming out of this.
Ryan Fenton
that the election (and by proxy the election website) was not tampered with and that there was no need for a recount. what more proof do you people need?
sarcasm:
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1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.
Except that this is not the Best. Economy. Ever.
Employment is still low, stock is still down, petroleum products are still horribly expensive.
Oh yeah, and we're still entrenched in a losing battle with terrorism.
What a great time to be alive and ignorant . . .
Galen
In your face, and always right!
Is that all it takes to get mod-points here at slashdot, saying Bush=Bad? No reasons, no explanation, nothing but "Bush. Worst. President. Ever."
What other president lied to start a war that has killed more than 3000 American troops?
What other president's administration has called the Geneva Convention "Quaint" and "Obsolete"?
What other president has actually defended torture?
What other president has overseen the arrest of innocent people (there have been "enemy combatants" released with their charges dropped), holding them for years as "enemy combatants" without any right to habeas corpus?
What other president has overseen warrant-less NSA and FBI wiretaps?
ZuluPad, the wiki notepad on crack
Damn, and out of mod points too.. You need to not post as Anonymous Coward. Not quite every Republican by the way, but well over half. And the "fair minded" Democrats will capitulate again.
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Remember how the tires on all vans the Republicans in some county had rented to take people to the polls were slashed the night before the election?
No. I call bullshit on this because:
In what fabled predominantly Republican district is it even a necessity to have vans take people to the polls? Don't say some retirement community, because the polling places are usually next to the dining hall. Wouldn't they just all pile into their Hummers and Esacalades? Since when do Republicans carpool, anyway? Why do that? There's no reason to conserve gasoline!
It's the night before the election. All the vans' tires have been slashed. Evidently, Big O tires is closed on Tuesdays.
The system has failed you, don't fail yourself. --Billy Bragg