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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.
Wierd things:
1)The smart tech site IP address is the first one listed by netcraft. From the link, you can't tell what it was before that.
2) It switched back to smartech on april 22, of last year as seen below.
SMARTECH CORPORATION PO BOX 11181 Chattanooga TN US 37401 64.203.98.137 Windows 2000 Microsoft-IIS/5.0 22-Apr-2006
Is that significant in any way?
3) Smartech uses Windows. That's neither smart, nor tech. Discuss amongst yourselves.
4) Firefox informs me that wierd is not the correct spelling of "weird".
I before e, except after c, except in weigh?
Does that mean its supposed to be pronounced way-rd. Now that is wierd.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
We really haven't done anything to show Bush that he is anything less than an absolute monarch in his kingdom.
So Bush decreed that private investment of personal Social Security funds thing and that drilling in ANWR thingie as supreme law?
Some monarch!
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Its funny how the audubon society opposes drilling in the ANWR.. Yet they allow oil drilling in their own privately owned wildlife preserves. Of course they do get paid for that..
I don't expect morality, equality, consistency, or justice from the law. I expect only legality.