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Netcraft Shows Smartech Running Ohio Election Servers

Posted by kdawson on from the something-rotten-in-the-state-of-Ohio dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Netcraft confirms... by Tuna_Shooter · · Score: 1, Troll

    It seems the tinfoil hat crowd is at it again. Nothing (and i mean nothing) to see here please move along

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  2. Just neighbors. Borrowed a cup of sugar once. by cpu_fusion · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  3. Re:Breaking News by arpad1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Employment is still low, stock is still down, petroleum products are still horribly expensive. That would make you French, possibly Spanish or German. In the US unemployment is nearing a historic low, the stock market and economy a historic high and petroleum products are expensive but hardly horribly so if all the full-size SUVs I see on the road are any indication.

    Oh yeah, and we're still entrenched in a losing battle with terrorism. Well, if we stopped funding the Palestinian Authority and encouraged a bit of civil unrest in Iran then we'd be "entrenched" in a battle with terrorism that we'd be winning faster then we're winning it now.

    What a great time to be alive and ignorant . . . You aren't kiddin'. You can be the sort of shmuck who jets from one environmental riot to another and never be troubled by the hypocrisy. Or the sort who decries the fascist government, loudly, publicly, repeatedly and without the slightest concern that they'll end up where people who loudly, publicly and repeatedly criticize a fascist government traditionally end up.

    Yup, great time to be alive and ignorant.
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