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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.
It seems the tinfoil hat crowd is at it again. Nothing (and i mean nothing) to see here please move along
*--- Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. ---*
The Republican party didn't win 2004's Presidential election legally. They cheated in many races. I was doing "Get Out The Vote" work in Nevada and witness the Republican intimidation tactics personally. When I saw the news coverage of what was happening in Ohio I wasn't surprised at all. Now there's this, once again, I'm not surprised. The Republicans targeted that state for election tampering and they won as a result. And yet there are Republicans who will defend this to no end. Who will reply to this and basically say "it doesn't matter that the RNC controlled the voting machines at every step, from design, software engineering, fabrication, delivery, vote tabulation, and result announcements!"
Our democracy is in great peril as long as these "win at all costs" idiots are in the game.
The Generation
I'd say something witty here, but I'm not that bright.
Yeah, they're just Internet neighbors who never talk. Pure coincidence. I think Ohio asked RNC for a cup of sugar once, but that's it.
Why? Because the Democrats didn't have a FAKE ELECTION RESULTS SERVER in operation on their network, that's why.
I'm not saying they did, I'm just pointing out the implication of a fake election results server by this conspiracy theory.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Yup, great time to be alive and ignorant.
Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
Except that this is not the Best. Economy. Ever.
.
Employment is still low
The unemployment rate is below 5%. It doesn't get much better without forced labor!
, stock is still down,
The stock market is at near record highs. It has never passed 13000. Right now the Dow is at 12,983.19. The stock market has never been better!
petroleum products are still horribly expensive.
And whose fault is that? The way I see it is that Bush wants to expand domestic production of oil to 1) bring prices down and 2) keep the money here instead of sending it to people who want to kill us.
Tell me, who's stopping us from drilling in ANWR? It's not the Alaskans!
Also, gas is cheaper today than it was in 1979 (adjusted for inflation, of course) and there is no rationing and no gas lines.
Oh yeah, and we're still entrenched in a losing battle with terrorism.
I beg to differ on the "losing" portion of your propaganda. However, we have those on the left (including the media) who WANT us to lose this thing so it looks bad for Bush. How many Al Qaeda members did we kill yesterday? How about on any day at all since 9-11? Don't know do ya. Why? It's not reported. Every single US military death is (rightfully) reported with all its gory details, but you NEVER see an enemy head-count. Well, OK, you do sometimes, but they are labeled as "Iraqi civilians killed by US forces". Fact is, we are kicking major ass in Iraq and Afghanistan, but you won't see it reported because it doesn't meet the agenda.
What a great time to be alive and ignorant . .
It must be!
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
A troll rating?
For pointing out that two sites sharing the last 8 bits of the IP address are neighbors (not physically natch) and not some random coincidence?
Geesh. You can close your eyes, but that don't make it highly suspicious.
According the the defined objectives, we are. Establish a democratic government...done. Remove a dictator who committed genocide on his own people...done. Find weapons of mass destruction....partially done (there have been a few IDE's that were documented and reported that contained nerve gas plus EVERY OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET SAID THE IRAQIS HAD WMD's). Disrupt terrorist funding channels....mostly done (I think we need to squeeze Saudi Arabia a little harder but thats me) Fight terrorists somewhere other than here...done. Assist the newly established democratic government defend itself....done Do the above with a minimum of casualties....definitely done. So what objectives have not been accomplished yet? There are a great number of things that I disagree with the current administration about, but it has done what it has stated it will do.
"...a civilian some of the time, a soldier part of the time and a patriot all of the time." -Brig. Gen. James Drain
Honestly, if you think that we went into Iraq "for one reason and one reason only,"you are seriously misinformed. Just listen to any State of the Union address prior to the war to hear the multiple reasons listed out in great detail. You may also want to read U.N. Resolution 1441 to see a list of Iraq's violations. It is a specious argument to claim that we only went into Iraq for one reason, and then claim that the war was unjust because that reason did not hold up. Just because you can't comprehend the complexities of international politics and economics, that doesn't mean that the President's decision was a simplistic one.
As for the other problems being caused by our actions: Tell me, how many of Saddam Hussein's rape rooms and mass murders were being run by the U.S.?
> So Bush decreed that private investment of personal Social Security funds thing
> and that drilling in ANWR thingie as supreme law?
no, you're right about that.
on the other hand, Bush now claims the legal right for himself
_or_his_representative_ to name *you* an enemy combatant,
and on that basis detain you indefinitely
(and torture you if he feels like it)
without any judicial review or legislative oversight.
without presenting any evidence to anyone. ever.
that has a certain absolute-monarch feel to it, doesn't it?
Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.
I hope you're trying to be ironic.
Sadly, I think you're just being moronic.